Hot-Update Client for Frontend Backend Logic Synchronization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for updating application programs require extensive communication between front-end and back-end developers due to differences in development environments and languages, leading to increased communication costs and hindering rapid updates and iterations.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a hot-update supporting client that allows front-end developers to debug and issue updated program logic to the back-end through an integrated development environment, using existing data interfaces for interaction, enabling compilation and data transfer without requiring back-end assistance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If front-end and back-end developers program separately using different IDEs and languages, then each can work independently on their respective ends, but communication costs increase significantly and update speed decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges front-end and back-end development capabilities into a single integrated development environment. The hot-update supporting client allows front-end developers to write, debug, and issue program logic that executes on the back-end without needing separate back-end development tools or languages. This combines the independence of separate development with the efficiency of integrated workflow.
Solution Approach 2:
The hot-update supporting client serves multiple functions: it acts as a front-end development environment, a compilation tool, a debugging platform, and a deployment system. This multi-functional tool eliminates the need for front-end developers to learn back-end specific IDEs and languages, while still enabling them to create and update back-end logic.
2Productivity
If front-end developers use their native programming language and IDE, then development efficiency is maintained, but they cannot write back-end codes requiring back-end developer assistance
Solution Approach 1:
The hot-update supporting client acts as an intermediary that translates front-end program logic into back-end executable code. Front-end developers write logic in their familiar language within their preferred IDE, and the client handles the compilation and deployment to the back-end, bridging the gap between front-end capabilities and back-end execution requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the execution environment parameter of the program logic from traditional back-end server execution to hot-update supporting client execution. This allows the same program logic to be written in front-end languages but executed on the back-end through the client's compilation and deployment mechanisms, expanding front-end developer versatility without changing their development tools.
3Reliability
If detailed negotiation is conducted between front-end and back-end developers for each function update, then code consistency is ensured, but communication overhead increases and rapid updates are hindered
Solution Approach 1:
The hot-update supporting client enables front-end developers to self-serve the entire update process independently. They can write, debug, compile, and deploy back-end logic without needing to coordinate with back-end developers. The system automatically handles code consistency and deployment, eliminating the need for manual negotiation while maintaining reliability.
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AI summary
An application program updating method, apparatus, system, medium and device. The application program updating method provides a method of debugging a to-be-updated program logic through a development mode of a hot-update supporting client to obtain an updated program logic, then issuing the updated program logic to a back-end, and acquiring update data from the back end through a product mode of the hot-update supporting client. This allows a front-end developer to write and update simply and quickly without an assistance of any back-end developers.