Hi vilinski that blog post is on SCN (SAP Community Network) but it's not from SAP itself, it's from a community member (like me or like you) because SAP allows everyone to express an opinion.
As I said, when you work in an enterprise envoirnment innovation is slow. SAPUI5 is evolving too, maybe slower than Angular, Vue or React but it's evolving but it's also true that it's used in much different use case.
Hi vilinski, this is not really a constructive comment :D
SAPUI5 is not Open Source you are right but SAPUI5 is based on OpenUI5 that is totally open source. SAPUI5 has just a couple of UI controls more than OpenUI5 that are not yet open source released but it's just a matter of time.
You always need to remember a couple of things. SAP is for enterprises and enterprise companies are different in needs compared to startup, projects and so on what you really want is stability and security and you cannot make huge shifts of tech without thinking about it twice. Also remember that enterprise companies relies always on Internet Explorer and when we're talking about that browser every new cool things are not supported.
SAPUI5 1.6.x is the latest version that will support that browser so I think that they will make some huge changes after that release cycle.
So yes, I think that SAPUI5 is still far behind if compared to other web framework like Vue, Angular or React but they are different products for different markets. You cannot find something better than SAPUI5 if you need to work with SAP ecosystem or with enterprise echosystem in general.
About the documentation, tools and resources you are wrong. SAP has made a huge investment about it and about the community. If you look at my first blog post on Habr "What do you need to start learning SAPUI5?" you can find all the answers.
I'm not a SAP employee so mine is the opinion of a consultant that perfectly know the state of the art of front/back end development nowadays.
Hi, I sent that email to support@habr.com. I will send it again through that feedback form. I get it, that's no problem at least I can have one Hub for it ;)
Hi Sirion, happy to be here ;)
SAP has many many faces that touch a lot of different technologies. If you want to keep a look at all the services available on SCP (SAP Cloud Platform) you can take a look at the Capabilities page. It has evolved a lot since '80s ;)
To answer to your questions:
OpenUI5 is the open source version of SAPUI5 (the latter has priority support and a couple of pre-made controls not yet in the open source version). UI5 is a general purpose framework similar to Vue/ReactJS/Angular. SAPUI5 is the perfect choice if you're working on SAP envoirnment for two main reason: SAP use a lot of OData to talk between backend-to-backend and frontend-to-backend and it's natively supported by UI5. The second reason is that UI5 offers a lot of pre-made UI controls that speed up your app-building and allows you to easily extend them or create new one from scatch. Using that framework allows you to easily comply to the SAP Fiori Design Pattern.
Compared to other frameworks is still a little bit behind (in term of performance) but it's improving a lot and they're (core team) investing really a huge amount of resources. It's still a must if you need to develop in a SAP ecosystem for the reasons above
deniskin I've just received an email from habr (it was an alert because you answered one of my comment) and it was in Russian. You should check which is the primary language of the user that receives the message and use a different template based on it ;)
deniskin what if I cannot find specific hubs for my blog post? My blog post are specific for SAP / SAPUI5 (a SAP technology) and SAP SCP. What hubs should I use? I would like to no use general hubs like JavaScript as the primary one.
I was waiting for this moment since years! Thank you very much guys!
Would it be a good place for me to also post my technical content about SAP's work I daily do? That content is written by me but I also post it on medium and on SAP blog.
As I said, when you work in an enterprise envoirnment innovation is slow. SAPUI5 is evolving too, maybe slower than Angular, Vue or React but it's evolving but it's also true that it's used in much different use case.
A lot of blog post about the evolution can be found here: blogs.sap.com/tag/ui5-evolution
SAPUI5 is not Open Source you are right but SAPUI5 is based on OpenUI5 that is totally open source. SAPUI5 has just a couple of UI controls more than OpenUI5 that are not yet open source released but it's just a matter of time.
You always need to remember a couple of things. SAP is for enterprises and enterprise companies are different in needs compared to startup, projects and so on what you really want is stability and security and you cannot make huge shifts of tech without thinking about it twice. Also remember that enterprise companies relies always on Internet Explorer and when we're talking about that browser every new cool things are not supported.
SAPUI5 1.6.x is the latest version that will support that browser so I think that they will make some huge changes after that release cycle.
So yes, I think that SAPUI5 is still far behind if compared to other web framework like Vue, Angular or React but they are different products for different markets. You cannot find something better than SAPUI5 if you need to work with SAP ecosystem or with enterprise echosystem in general.
About the documentation, tools and resources you are wrong. SAP has made a huge investment about it and about the community. If you look at my first blog post on Habr "What do you need to start learning SAPUI5?" you can find all the answers.
I'm not a SAP employee so mine is the opinion of a consultant that perfectly know the state of the art of front/back end development nowadays.
SAP has many many faces that touch a lot of different technologies. If you want to keep a look at all the services available on SCP (SAP Cloud Platform) you can take a look at the Capabilities page. It has evolved a lot since '80s ;)
To answer to your questions:
Would it be a good place for me to also post my technical content about SAP's work I daily do? That content is written by me but I also post it on medium and on SAP blog.