Announcing: Switch over to SAP Web IDE Full-Stack

The current version of SAP Web IDE will no longer be available as of December 31, 2018.

We introduced the enhanced version of SAP Web IDE a year ago: SAP Web IDE Full-Stack. At that time, we suggested that you use each version for different needs (SAP Web IDE for Fiori and SAP Web IDE Full-Stack for Full stack development e.g. see the SAP Web IDE Versions blog) until we consolidate the versions into one.

Today, we are happy to announce that the SAP Web IDE Full-Stack version is ready for you to use for all needs. It is a more scalable version which supports both front end and backend development including a build process, abstraction layers for ease of development and much more…With this we can provide the ability to develop Fiori, Full stack, Mobile, IoT and additional scenarios.

Moving forward, we will focus our our efforts in SAP Web IDE Full-Stack version, so we recommend to switch over to SAP Web IDE Full-Stack and start enjoying our improvements.

So, what do you do with the projects you have in SAP Web IDE?

You should migrate your projects to SAP Web IDE Full-Stack by December 31, 2018! The current SAP Web IDE will no longer be available after that date. 

The migration process is very simple and will only take a few minutes. To provide you with the best experience, we have a wizard which will seamlessly guide you through the process. There are also tutorials, videos, and documentation to help you.

Next time you open SAP Web IDE you will see an invitation to try out the new version .
So go ahead! Click the button, move your projects to SAP Web IDE Full-Stack and start using the new capabilities and improvements that are available in this version.

SAP Web IDE Full-Stack is included in your SAP Web IDE license. There is no need to purchase other licenses in order to use SAP Web IDE Full-Stack.

Check out this blog for more information about the migration procedure

So, what’s new in SAP Web IDE Full-Stack?

Enhanced SAP Fiori Capabilities

We continue to enhance SAP Web IDE’s SAP Fiori capabilities, making it easier and faster to develop engaging and beautiful UI applications.

Let me tell you about some of the new and improved capabilities. For the full list, please see the SAP Web IDE release notes

1. Consuming APIs from SAP API Business Hub

You have probably heard of the recently introduced SAP API Business Hub, a central catalog that brings together APIs from SAP Cloud Platform, S/4 HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, and other SAP cloud products. We have now integrated SAP Web IDE to this catalog, greatly simplifying the process of finding, exploring, testing, and consuming SAP data services directly from SAP Web IDE. Browse and explore APIs, test an API in its sandbox with mock data, and finally, consume a selected API in your application. All of this without leaving SAP Web IDE.

For more details, see Consume APIs from SAP API Business Hub.

2. Storyboard

The storyboard provides a visual representation of the application’s UI including its pages (views), navigations, and the services and entities that it uses.

The new storyboard also enables you to perform actions on your project like adding or deleting a view or defining navigations between views.

3. Workspace Manager

You can now create multiple workspaces. This enables you to group your projects in different workspaces. The Workspace Manager allows you to create and delete workspaces and to open another workspace in the current browser tab or in a new tab.

4. Syncing service metadata

You can now sync the metadata of a service in one click from your workspace.

Building Web Applications using Grunt

In SAP Web IDE Full-Stack, the SAPUI5 Client Build functionality is replaced with Grunt. Grunt is a JavaScript task runner that allows you to automate any task that you, as a front-end developer, need to perform on a regular basis. Among other things:

• Validate code against best practices using linters for CSS, JavaScript, and so on.
• Minify and bundle your JavaScript and CSS files for optimized performance.
• Compress your CSS and images.
• Translate LESS to CSS.

To use Grunt capabilities in SAP Web IDE Full-Stack, you don’t need to set up your environment by installing the Node.js runtime environment or Grunt. You just need to add two mandatory files to your project (package.json and Gruntfile.js), which contain the configurations for running npm and Grunt. After that, you activate the Grunt build from your project’s context menu.

For more details on enabling Grunt, see Building Applications.

If you use Grunt in your continuous integration and continuous delivery processes, now you can apply the same Grunt build in SAP Web IDE Full-Stack (during the development phase, before pushing the changes to the Git repository).

Full-Stack Development

We enhanced SAP Web ID Full-Stack to support server-side development in addition to the support for SAP Fiori/SAPUI5. This means you can now create full-stack applications.

A full-stack application project may consist of several modules, such as a data model, business logic, and, of course, a UI. You can create these modules using wizards, define interdependencies and dependencies to existing cloud services, use graphical modelers and context-aware tools to build, debug and test your code, and finally, deploy the entire application project as a single package to SAP Cloud Platform.

Learn more on how to develop a full-stack application in this blog series.

SAP Cloud Platform Workflow service

You can model a workflow using the workflow editor in SAP Web IDE Full-Stack, which enables IT specialists to create workflows using the graphical Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard. The BPMN workflow model also allows users to describe the flow of activities, events, and decision gateways.

For more details, see SAP Cloud Platform Workflow.

SAP Cloud Platform Portal service

SAP Web IDE offers a custom feature for developing freestyle site components in a structured manner. The feature consists of a set of wizards for creating site templates, page templates, pages, and widgets, as well as an option to convert a Web application to a freestyle site widget. All components are packaged together in one project that can be deployed to your subaccount on the cloud.

For more details, see End to End Development Flow.

Mobile development kit for SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services

In addition to the existing powerful mobile hybrid development capabilities of SAP Web IDE, we are pleased to announce the new metadata-driven Mobile development kit for SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services (also known as SAP Enterprise App Modeler).

For more details, see Developing Apps Using SAP Enterprise App Modeler.

Advanced IoT Application Enablement

SAP Web IDE Full-Stack provides an advanced IoT wizard for developing beautiful IoT applications in less than five minutes, without any coding. Unlike other SAP Fiori wizards, it supports a divided page layout, with arbitrary horizontal and vertical sections.

Using the enhanced layout editor, you can drag and drop smart IoT-friendly controls into any of the sections and easily bind each of these controls to an SAP Leonardo IoT service point. Define interactions and event actions via a dialog, test with live data, and deploy the application to SAP Fiori launchpad on SAP Cloud Platform.

For more details, see For more info read SAP IoT Application Enablement.

Check out this blog for more information about the migration procedure.

If you have any other questions, ask our community , check out our documentation ,or contact us.

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