I don’t know how I missed it but Harish Bhavinachikar has a nice post on what you can do with modern UI tools in WebSphere Portal. It’s on our Spark Blog but addresses something that keeps coming up again and again. Frankly, the front-end tools have changed considerably in the last couple years. Modern UI tools / frameworks like AngularJS, Bootstrap, JQuery, and a host of others make it easier to manage the UI and to further enforce separation of the front-end from the back-end. While a horizontal portal like IBM’s WebSphere Portal does some of that, it wont’ take you all that way. But as Harish explains, all is not lost. You can still leverage those frameworks and best practices within the portal. I’ll let you read the entire post but here’s his list of Myths. Note how he is also telling you some best practices here.
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Myth – Websphere portal is not compatible with latest front end frameworks like bootstrap, foundation, jQuery Mobile, etc. -
Myth – Websphere portal is not compatible with jQuery and associated plugins.
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Myth – All the css, javascript, images associated with a portlet should be inside that portlet.
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Myth – To make a change in the css file, this should be done in the portal theme, deployed to QA, tested and then served to production.
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Best Practices a Front End Developer needs to follow while working with portal theme.
