Building Web Apps on Desktop SAS

Allan Bowe

4GL Apps

• Modernise legacy AF/SCL and SAS/Intrnet
• Migrate SAS Apps from SAS 9 to Viya
• Manifest new SAS Apps & DevOps tools
• SAS App Support

Projects

Demo - Data Controller

• https://datacontroller.io
• https://docs.datacontroller.io

SASjs Framework

Tool Box for SAS Apps & Solution Development

• @sasjs/adapter - Connectivity
• @sasjs/cli - CI/CD and Automated Deployment
• @sasjs/core - Macro library
• @sasjs/server - Web Server & REST API for Base SAS

SASjs Server

A Web Server and REST API for Base SAS

• SASjs Drive for content
• SASjs Studio for code execution
• SASjs AppStream for deployed Apps

HTML5 App Architecture

SAS Platform Comparison

Demo - Deployment & Configuration

• https://github.com/sasjs/server
• with / without variables
• http / https

Demo - SASjs Server Interfaces

• Drive (edit, execute)
• Studio (session manager: https://github.com/sasjs/server)
• REST API (run SAS code)

Demo - AppStream

Prepending these urls with "gitpod.io/" will create a temporary container instance for that repo

• Angular - https://github.com/sasjs/angular-seed-app
• React - https://github.com/sasjs/react-seed-app
• Vanilla JS - https://github.com/sasjs/minimal-seed-app

Demo - SASjs Server for Running Tests

Tests can be written for SAS Macros, Jobs & Services.

• https://github.com/sasjs/template_jobs
• https://github.com/sasjs/core
• https://cli.sasjs.io/test

Roadmap

• Okta Authentication (Server mode)
• Folder Permissions (Server mode)
• Syntax Highlighting
• Data Browser

Allan Bowe, Chief SAS App Officer

• allan@4gl.io
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/allanbowe/
• https://github.com/sasjs