I mean, the code, everything — they stripped out all the front end code.
The benefit of the Google approach is that developers can use much of their existing front end code and simply tailor it slightly for OpenSocial, so creating applications is even easier than on Facebook.
In contrast, the front end code and assets that Supernova generates is designed to be handed off to a developer to write the required logic and 'wire up' the app to backend code and databases, but with one repetitive and laborious step less than the current designer/developer workflow.
Centres teaching this 21st-century skill are popping up all over the country and recently I found myself fulfilling my curiosity at a one-day front-end coding workshop in Islington, London.
Co-founder James Tamplin says that with Firebase, developers can focus on design and front-end coding, without worrying about the backend.
Attending Le Wagon takes two months and you learn back-end and front-end coding, database stuff as well as a bit of project management.
He went on to suggest that with Firebase, developers only need to worry about the design and front-end coding — they can access all of their Firebase data using JavaScript, so they can stop thinking about the backend.
In January, the inmates will become part of Silicon Valley's latest experimental employment arrangement when the Last Mile launches a program that will have them doing actual entry-level front-end coding work for companies on the outside.
The very last step was front-end code, which I feverishly, desperately whipped out in four days, 13 coffees, and a bottle of Bowmore.
You can also export front-end code for use in your production apps, should you so desire.
The back-end runs for free on Google App Engine and the Flex front-end code will be included should someone decide to pick up the site.
