I’m writing trading software called A better Trader. For the web UI, I started using some basic JQuery and JQuery UI, with a mind to kick the tires on Bootstrap. I dug in and after looking at a bazillion frameworks and libraries (some fading, some up and coming, NONE really owning it)… K.I.S.S. is ruling the day. I’m finding myself happy with the following:
- HTML5 with support for multimedia, flexboxes, dragon droppings, etc.
- JQuery && (JQuery UI || bootstrap)
- D3 for all things visual… so good…
- iframes! Yep! API calls typically return SVG-based graphic components in iframes, and API parent pages combine them into application-like views.
On the back end, I’m doing RESTful services with boost ASIO. It’s a light clean set of tools. I will probably stand up bootstrap on the front end, and node.js on the back end, for comparison. We’ll see how it goes.
