Project manager question here - I am not a techie so please be gentle with me.
We are JUCE license holders and have some JUCE code which works very well on various platforms. However, a customer has requested that we make the UI available as a web page rather than as an application that runs on a specific OS. From a remote PC they want to browse to a Linux box where the application is running and presented as a web page, rather than have the app on the PC itself. To be clear, they want a web interface and not some other form of terminal capability.
Does anyone know if this is possible? Any pointers much appreciated!
Either you want to write an HTTP UI with a JUCE backend. You can run a webserver in JUCE using something like civetweb.
Or if it’s also possible to run the code natively using WebAssembly.
Neither are very easy.
Writing an actual javascript/HTTP frontend for your app is probably the best strategy as cross compiling for web assembly is tricky, and debugging problems is a real pain.
port the UI part of your app to something like React and add a REST server to your JUCE application. (Not trivial but likely the correct way of doing it).
Recompile your whole app to run on WASM. (Likely extremely difficult and costly to support in the long run).
A variation of Remote Desktop/Streaming that allows your customer to connect via a web interface and is presented with your JUCE application streamed from a server. (Third party services can do this, potentially expensive running costs though).
