thinkCube, Infoshare sign deal to jointly develop web UI toolkit ‘RUBIK’

ThinkCube Systems and Infoshare, two leading Information Technology companies in Sri Lanka signed a groundbreaking agreement to jointly develop an innovative, rapid web user interface development toolkit. This toolkit, which will be extensively deployed by the two companies in their software products, solutions and platforms, is expected to greatly assist developers to dramatically optimise the time and resources dedicated to development of software application front ends.

In the past five years, the web has been transformed by rich apps based on new technologies such as HTML5 and frameworks such as Google’s Angular and Polymer projects, Ember.js, and Facebook’s React.js. These apps not only now rival the power of desktop apps, but also have the potential to run equally well on mobile devices.

Project RUBIK (Rapid/React UI Building Kit) is a homegrown, collaborative R&D effort spearheaded by thinkCube and Infoshare to introduce a “declarative metaprogramming” approach to web UI creation based on these technologies. Built upon the React JavaScript library, which powers a growing number of web apps including Instagram, WhatsApp Web, and Facebook, RUBIK is essentially a UI program that writes itself, based on a machine readable specification. This approach will potentially place both companies ahead of much of the competition in terms of web user interface (UI) technology innovation.

“We are excited to partner with Infoshare in this ground breaking as well as trend setting exercise and believe that the combined efforts of the two teams will result in a new paradigm in application development” said Mithila Mendis, CEO of thinkCube Systems Ltd.

“We are tremendously excited to be partnering with thinkcube on this initiative and I cannot think of a better firm to partner with. Quite apart from the incredibly interesting  technology we will be working with, what really interests me is the collaborative and sharing aspects of the partnership: both teams will be pooling our resources and building software libraries that we will all find useful and also adds value to our respective businesses,” said Anuruddha Edirisinghe, CEO of Infoshare (Gte) Ltd.