hypersonic v0.0.1

Hypersonic

Hypersonic is a platform for developing data-centric business applications.

Stack:

• React.js
• Redux
• Express.js
• Bootstrap
• Node.js
• PostgreSQL

Project status:

Hypersonic is under active development. 1.0 release is planned for 2017 Q1.

About

Hypersonic is a platform for developing data-centric business applications.. So, what is this? It's any application which the primary goal is to allow the user to manipulate entities. It allows users to input data, search and compile the information into charts and reports. It's a management system. The entities that the users manipulate depend on the application niche. If we're talking about a CRM, for instance, there will probably be entities for Customer, Organization, Lead and Sale. The universe of entities that the user can manipulate is called the Application Domain.

Fortunately, virtually every data-centric business application share most of their DNA, regardless of the application domain. It doesn't matter which entities the application handles, there's always a plethora of common problems that have to be tackled:

• Authentication.
• Authorization / Access Control.
• API and integration.
• Auditing / Change Tracking.
• Notifications.
• Dynamic SCRUD forms (search, create, read, update and delete).
• Custom entities and forms.
• Charts.

• Reports.

Hypersonic aims to provide the tools you need to create a successful application without having to deal with all these hurdles.

Core concepts

Configuration over coding

As mentioned before, data-centric business applications share a common DNA. Most of the business logic should be handled by the platform, not the application. Hypersonic provides a framework that allows for configuring rather than coding for most of the scenarios.

Hypersonic relies heavily on declarative reactive metadata. Instead of coding, it's possible to define the existence of entities as well as all of it's metadata. It's possible, for instance, to declare that an entity's property is invalid when a give expression is true. The UI reacts automatically accordingly.

Extreme customization

In today's scenario, it's impossible to think of a data-centric business application that doesn't allow the customer to extend it. Hypersonic is designed, from the core, to allow for maximum customization. Actually, the application developer and the end-user share virtually the same capabilities.

Internationalization

Hypersonic is designed to support translations, time-zones and multiple date and number formats.

About the author

I'm André Pena, from Brazil. I work for Thomson Reuters as a Software Architect and on Hypersonic on most of the time that is left. My SO profile if you are interested. I hope you will enjoy using it as much as I enjoy implementing it.

Follow me on twitter.

License

Hypersonic is MIT.

Contributing

There's still no guideline for contributing but we'd love to have you. Please e-mail me at andrerpena@gmail.com if you want to get onboard. We can even schedule a Skype session.

Getting started

Installing global dependencies

Hypersonic depend on webpack-dev-server, gulp and karma

npm install -g gulp
npm install -g karma-cli
npm install -g webpack-dev-server

Installing

Install by cloning the GitHub repo:

git clone https://github.com/gearz-lab/hypersonic.git

Starting in development mode

Start the webpack-dev-server:

npm run wps

Start the app:

npm run start-dev

Starting in production mode

Build:

gulp

Start the app:

npm run start