View Development Paradigm - which one?

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Hi All,

I suspect this has been discussed before but I can't see the wood for the trees at the moment...  I'm taking my first proper steps in SAPUI5 development in anger and wondered if there is a preferred view type?  Is there a pro's/con's document or some sort of decision tree to help decide which paradigm to go for?

If it helps, I'm more used to working with JavaScript and HTML so would naturally tend towards one of those.  JS looks especially similar to how many other SAP UI technology has worked in the past in my mind so looks to be easier for me to get into but am happy to be guided...

Thanks,

Gareth.

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Ok, here's another opinion 🙂

With the current waves of Fiori apps being delivered with XML views, that's one big reason to write your own apps in XML views too - to become acquainted with that declarative method of defining views, so you are then more ready to understand and modify (extend) SAP-delivered apps in the future as a bonus.

Plus IMHO the declarative nature of the XML views have some advantages which I touch on here a bit too:

Yes, there are HTML views that are also declarative, but more verbose than their XML equivalents.

Finally, I think it's OK to reveal that the upcoming version of the sap.m Explored app will have XML view code for all the samples 🙂

Go for XML views and build apps like the Fiori development teams!

dj