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In the next release of Anahita we are rebuilding the UIs in #ReactJS and #MaterialUI. The php back-end will be mostly providing Restful APIs and will only be rendering pages with SEO value, otherwise Anahita will be mostly rendering as a single page app #SAP for the logged in users. If you want to start learning the technologies that we will be using here are some resources that I've studied:

ReactJS Tutorial & Documentation: 

• Tutorial: https://facebook.github.io/react/tutorial/tutorial.html
• Documentation: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/hello-world.html

Material-UI: 

1. A Material Design implementation using ReactJS: http://www.material-ui.com
2. A frontend framework for building admin SPAs on top of REST services, using React and Material Design https://github.com/marmelab/admin-on-rest
3. Flow is a habit tracker and personal data analytics app that lets you keep focus on what matters. Flow owns none of your data: https://github.com/onejgordon/flow-dashboard
4. Personal podcast web client htt...

The focus of #Anahita 4.3 was to completely remove Joomla from Anahita. The focus of next release will be #MobileFirst and developing a client server architecture where all the UI layouts and elements are generated in the browser using Javascript while the server side php becomes mostly an API.

This article describes the ideal scenarios that we are aiming to achieve.

Designing for Mobile First

The current release of Anahita is using Bootstrap 2.2.4 which is primarily developed for desktop devices while providing a responsive mode for mobile screens. Mobile traffic is now surpassing the desktop traffic on the web so it makes sense to treat mobile users as primary users. Latest releases of #Bootstrap and #MaterialDesign have already rewritten their libraries for the mobile devices as primary users. 

Quite likely we will be using the Material Design library for the next release of Anahita which seems to be more suitable for web applications compare to the Bootstrap library. We will be usi...