Tearless
Lets developers build, test, and maintain multi-tier web applications as a single artefact instead of separate client and server codebases, easing distribution, consistency, and security concerns without introducing a new language.
Website: soft.vub.ac.be/tearless Funding: VLAIO SBO (Strategic Basic Research Flanders) Timeline: 2016–2019 Additional PIs: Elisa Gonzalez Boix (VUB-SOFT), Frank Piessens (KU Leuven)
Explored a vision in which multi-tier web applications are developed, tested, and maintained as a single artefact spanning all tiers, relieving developers of distribution, consistency, and security concerns. Produced the tier-splitting tool Stip.js.