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Get going with Ractive.JS for your web pages

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Ractive.JS consists of a UI library that works with templates. Ractive JS library transforms style, logic to highly interactive apps. It has out of the box support for, Powerful and extensible components, two-way binding, scoped CSS, SVG support and animations. There are also plugins if the above are not sufficient. It does not have a very steep learning curve like other frameworks. It's origins are in the News media company, the Guardian . Originally used for producing News related applications where the demands and interactivity are very high. Nice thing is,  you are not locked to it like other frameworks. Here is the script reference to Ractive.JS If you want to download there are many references: # jsDelivr https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/ractive # CDNjs https://cdnjs.com/libraries/ractive # unpkg https://unpkg.com/ractive # npm npm install --save-dev ractive # Bower bower install --save ractive Just go to the cdnjs.com above and click. When y

UWP : Visual Studio 2017 Community error 'App Didn't Start'

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This error appears when you try to deploy the project to the Local Machine (x64). There are no errors during build or deploy stages. However, when you try to run the machine you come up with this message after the App shows up momentarily and disappears immediately. Trying to deploy to an emulator such as Mobile Emulator 10.0.14393.0 WVGA 4 Inch 512MB comes with the following errors. The emulator is running: However when you deploy it to a device (in this case Lumia 925) the app gets deployed with no errors. In order to proceed to package it for uploading to the Windows Store I am not sure just deploying it to the device is good enough. Is there a fix?

UWP: Choosing the right target version for UWP Projects

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I faced quite a bit of downtime due to the wrong choice of the target version working with UWP Projects. Web search to find a cure sent me searching for answers I could not find. I am using Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2017 Version 15.8.1. The Dell alptop is running Evaluation copy of Build 17733.rs5_release(18083-1525). [ This OS has a problem in that when you shutdown and restart the OS, it will reinstall the OS afresh wiping out some of the folders; saved passwords; saved items in Microsoft Edge. Visual Studio also gets reset. ]. Now coming back to the right Target version for working with UWP projects, there are three options for the Target version shown in this image. RightTargetVersion_0 Of the three options only one of them allows the Desgin editor in Visual Studio come up without this error - The app did'nt start(HRESULT:0x8027025B) . This is the only one that works: Windows 10 Creators Update (10.0; Build 15063) . Regarding the choices for