> I've been looking at a couple of RIA frameworks, namely Sproutcore and > Cappuccino. The feel a bit too heavy for me. Sproutcore does not > integrate well with Django
> The reason I'm posting is to ask the community if they have know of > anything that is at a higher level than jQuery + jQuery UI and a lower > level than Sproutcore/Cappuccino. I'd like to find something that has > this kind of stuff in it: > - Client-side Javascript MVC implementation (Both Sproutcore and > Cappuccino have controllers and view) > - Easy layouts (I really > likehttp://cappuccino.org/learn/tutorials/automatic-layout/) > - Data bindings (Step 4 > onhttp://www.sproutcore.com/documentation/hello-world-tutorial-2-your-f...) When I looked into some of the heavier JavaScript application frameworks such as SproutCore, Cappucino, and ExtJS, the biggest hurdle I faced was my own approach. These frameworks are designed to build complete web applications, not to be sprinkled within Django template files the way I might do with jQuery. After talking with Erich from the SproutCore project, I decided the best approach was to build the entire front-end application in static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, relying on ajax calls to Django URLs for backend data. (I use Apache to serve my static HTML/ JS/CSS files and don't even process them with Django to save the overhead) Even with my jQuery projects, my initial results were a morass of spaghetti code because I was approaching my client-side projects as a web developer, relying on my experience with what I'd call "request and response" thinking. I had to study the practices of traditional stateful, event-driven desktop application development before my attempts at these projects went more smoothly. (and I'm still learning!) If you settle on a client-side MVC framework, you'll probably want to keep the frontend and backend completely separate and use Django for web services calls to send and receive data to the frontend. The client-side controllers will handle the data calls and binding to the UI controls in the view. If instead you want a site that's mostly driven by Django but has some extra functionality, I'd probably stick with something lighter like jQuery. I know this isn't the answer to your question, but since I've faced the same issues, I thought I'd share. Hope this helps. -- Scott --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
