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Launched in 2012, BladeRunner is an HTML5 development framework for building modular enterprise-scale HTML5 apps. It consists of a set of conventions and a toolkit for developing, testing and deploying apps.

We also offer a suite of tools and components for adding web trading functionality. Available separately, they can be used individually or in combination and are designed to work with existing HTML5 libraries.

The table below shows each of the components - click on a tile to visit the developers' page for that item.

BladeRunner

BladeRunner

A framework for building modular enterprise-scale HTML5 apps composed of Blades. It consists of a set of conventions and a toolkit for developing, testing and deploying apps.

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Included with BladeRunner:

Verifier

Unit testing using js-test-driver and BDD-style acceptance tests integrated with BladeRunner

Presenter

An MVC (MVVM) framework for creating components in a way that is simple and easy to maintain, keeping your HTML view and JavaScript logic separate

Base Library

Create structured and maintainable JavaScript code to interact with other parts of the BladeRunner system, using extensible classes and interfaces

BladeRunner’s features

Some firms are reluctant to adopt HTML5 to develop complex trading applications because of the lack of support for enterprise-scale development in HTML5 and JavaScript.

BladeRunner addresses those concerns by providing:

  • Class/Script loading and dependency management
  • MVC-type patterns to enforce separation of concerns
  • Name-spacing and code privacy
  • Unit and acceptance testing
  • Efficient bundling and deployment of large apps

With BladeRunner you develop discrete name-spaced re-usable code modules (blades) that you can run stand-alone or integrated in a full application.

BladeRunner’s benefits

The benefits of using BladeRunner for HTML5 and JavaScript development include:

  • Substantially reduced time to market
  • Improved app quality & maintainability
  • Easier support for multiple devices, including mobile
  • Reduced development costs
  • Reduced risk of development
  • Creates library of re-usable modules for even faster development

Caplin HTML5 Libraries

Display

Coming Soon

Chart

Our real-time charting facility uses pure JavaScript to create customisable graphs from live data
Coming Soon

Tree

A familiar tree-view for organising large data-sets, updating its content and structure in real time from a live data feed

Grid

The fastest grid available, built with real-time financial data in mind, and supported by Caplin’s Platform, yet open for integration with other systems

Layout

Renderer

Re-use UI controls, parsers, formatters and styling components across your application. Renderers are also designed to deal with rapidly changing data in the most efficient manner.

Webcentric

A flexible layout manager for displaying the components you develop on a page.  Easy to lay out in XML, and with a drag & drop GUI for users

Domain API

Coming Soon

Alerts API

Set up alerts to notify users about events that occur within data streamed through the Caplin Platform or other back-end systems.

Permissioning API

A fine-grained, real-time user permissions system for your web application, which you can use to change GUI components and adapt users’ views and privileges.

Trading API

A simple, event based messaging API for communicating domain specific trade events. Whip up a components' trade workflow using intelligible trade models