Greetings,
Ever since I encountered Openui5, this awesome front-end framework, I’ve been thinking, how could I introduce it to more people, how about an end to end real-life application? Not only showcase the goodies of the framework, but show people how easy it is to work with a back-end database, to deploy, and to add common features like sending emails, make it the whole package.
So here it is, the Openui5 demo app – shopping cart on steroids 
Key features:
- Powered by Openui5 / Ruby Sinatra. It’s built on top of the demo app, the only non-Openui5 / JavaScript code is the email sending part, which is written in Ruby.
- Hosted by Heroku, which connects with my Github repo (automatic deploy).
- Outgoing emails service is provided by Mailgun. Their free plan allows us to send out 400 mails each day.
- Images hosted using Dropbox.
- And the best is that it uses Google spreadsheet as the database (I had a reusable Openui5 module written for this task), which makes it super easy to manage the back-end data, and robust as hell.
I’ll go out and say this is the perfect e-commerce solution for mamas and papas stores, give me five ^__^
Actually I’m fairly new to programming, you could for sure sniff some code smells here and there, but it does not keep me from solving problem programmatically and contributing, cheers.
Check out the live demo, and all of my code: