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# GWT - Google Web Toolkit Reviews
**Vendor:** Google  
**Category:** [Other Web Frameworks Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-web-frameworks)  
**Average Rating:** 3.4/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 15
## About GWT - Google Web Toolkit
GWT is a development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. Its goal is to enable productive development of high-performance web applications without the developer having to be an expert in browser quirks, XMLHttpRequest, and JavaScript. GWT is used by many products at Google, including AdWords, AdSense, Flights, Hotel Finder, Offers, Wallet, Blogger. It’s open source, completely free, and used by thousands of developers around the world.




## GWT - Google Web Toolkit Reviews
  ### 1. Once innovative

**Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018

**What do you like best about GWT - Google Web Toolkit?**

When it was released back in the days it was innovative and pretty much the only approach for back-end developers write front-end code, but after single page application revolution the complexity and speed of this framework looks like a joke.

**What do you dislike about GWT - Google Web Toolkit?**

It's slow, require browser extension for debugging. Big learning curve. Google shut down the project at 2017 so no more support from their side, only community updates.

**Recommendations to others considering GWT - Google Web Toolkit:**

Would not recommend to anyone who stars new project in 2018. Google closed the project at 2017 and only the power of community keeps it alive. Nevertheless if you have legacy code to support it's not that bad. It has everything needed to have a good single page app that still could compete with a whales like Angular or React.

**What problems is GWT - Google Web Toolkit solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Single page application architecture. Strict types. Java syntax and support of huge java ecosystem. Ability to write java script inside Java.


## GWT - Google Web Toolkit Discussions
  - [What are the advantages of GWT?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-advantages-of-gwt)
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  - [What is Google Web Toolkit used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-google-web-toolkit-used-for)
  - [Is GWT dead?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-gwt-dead)
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