The UI5 Tooling is a open and modular toolchain designed for developing state-of-the-art web applications based on the UI5 framework. Since its introduction a few years ago, it has become an indispensable part of UI5 app development. To gain deeper insights into this project, we have the honor of speaking with the architects of UI5 Tooling, Merlin Beutlberger and Matthias Osswald. Both have been involved with UI5 for many years, with Matthias even starting his SAP career in UI5 framework development. They have been instrumental in shaping the UI5 Tooling project right from its inception. We begin by discussing how they became UI5 framework developers. We then delve into the history of UI5 development tools, exploring the driving forces behind starting the project and the decision to make it open source. Additionally, they shed light on the barriers and restrictions that make this project particularly challenging. Finally, we gain some insights into what lies ahead for UI5 Tooling.

Links:

UI5 Tooling Documentation: https://sap.github.io/ui5-tooling/

UI5 Tooling Project: https://github.com/SAP/ui5-tooling 

UI5 Tooling CLI: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ui5/cli 

Karma runner for UI5: https://github.com/SAP/karma-ui5 

UI5 Community Organisation: https://github.com/ui5-community

UI5 Tooling Community Extensions: ui5-ecosystem-showcase

Best of UI5: https://bestofui5.org/

UI5 Tooling Extensions: https://github.com/SAP/ui5-tooling-extensions

Related UI5 NewsCast Episodes:

UI5 NewsCast 012 Tooling
UI5 NewsCast 018 The UI5 Community Organization and Beyond