Microsoft isn’t leaving
any stone unturned to ensure that is meets its target of 1 billion downloads of
Windows 10. To ensure that a substantial number of apps are found on Windows
10, Microsoft has now announced Project Westminster.
In a post on the Windows blog, Kiril Seksenov, and Engineer on the Microsoft Edge Web Apps
team said, “Project Westminster makes it simple for you to bring existing
Hosted Web Apps to Windows 10. Project Westminster embraces “the way of the
web” by giving you the opportunity to publish an app while continuing to use
your tools, developing your code and deploying to the host you desire.”
He added, “Just enter your app’s start page URL and define
the app’s scope of URLs in the app manifest to create a Universal Windows
Platform app. Continue with platform integration by pushing code to your servers,
feature detecting for and directly calling Universal Windows APIs. Once
deployed, hit F12 on a Windows machine to test and debug your app.”
What this essentially
means is irrespective of which platforms developers build for, they would be
able to use the same code they have written for their respective apps and bring
them to Windows 10. Also what’s notable is that developers can continue to use
the tools they are comfortable with. At the development stage, they don’t have
to necessarily pick on Visual Studio, but could use a vast array of tools from
Notepad++ to SublimeText, Vim or Brackets.
For version control,
developers could use GitHub, GitLab, SVN in addition to Visual Studio Online.
Finally, developers can host the apps on Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, or a
private cloud.
Project Westminster offers developers the ability to have their
app appear on the Windows 10 Store with minimal additional code base required.
Earlier BlackBerry employed a similar strategy and launched BlackBerry 10 with 70,000 apps.
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