Last week, I was lucky enough to attend React Europe 2018 in Paris, France. Since we are using React at Obeo to build some of our applications, it was the perfect opportunity to learn more from the community and now that this edition of React Europe is in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to look back on some of its key moments. Day One React Europe 2018 kicked off with a keynote from Ken Wheeler on...

The next major version of Sirius , version 6.0, will be released on June 27, 2018 as part of the Eclipse Photon Simultaneous Release, with a corresponding version of Obeo Designer Community Edition soon after. Many of the new features for this release are already available for testing in milestone versions, and now is the right time to test them and give us feedback: there’s still time to make adj...

In general, users of Open Source projects like Sirius tend to only interact with the project when they have problems, or once in a while to thank us (which is always greatly appreciated!). It can be difficult to find out who is using the project, how they use it, and what they would like to see in future versions. Last October (during SiriusCon 2017), we released the first ever Sirius Community Su...

In this post, we will see how to detect issues with the user experience of your web application with the Performance and Memory tabs in the Chrome Devtools. Chrome contains a complete web application profiler in its Performance and Memory tabs. With the Performance tab, it is possible to record everything happening in your web application. You have the ability to start a new recording with ⌘ + e (...

At Obeo , we have done the first steps to bring Sirius to the web. Today we are ready to work with you to bring your own modeling tool up to the cloud. If you are curious about details, this is the longer story… As you know, at Obeo, we have been working on modeling tools for a long time now, and we therefore have a lot of experience developing graphical tools. Obeo is a key player in the Modeling...

After our tour of the Chrome Devtools Console, we can now have a look at the Network tab. This tab will display all communication between the current page and any server. The Network tab is composed of two parts, on top you will find an overview of the timeline where all the requests that have been made can be seen. Below this overview, the Network tab shows the details of each request. Finally ab...

A small post to announce that I will be speaking at CheConf18 , a one day conference dedicated to Eclipse Che an extensible cloud development platform. I am really excited to participate to this event! I will co speak with Stevan Le Meur, Che maintainer from RedHat about Building Extensibility and Community for Che. During our session, you’ll get a preview of the work we prototyped at Obeo to brin...