I saw this - it ties in with a lot of thinking I've had lately. I have a talk half planned on the future of web development - my personal feeling is that with javascript now on in the vast majority of browsers, and with Google at least allowing for SEO on ajax hash-bang URLs, the days of generating html on the server are rapidly running out.
My favourite app architecture at the moment: - MongoDB for persistence, serving up JSON (well, BSON) - Sinatra for the Domain / Model layer, mostly sending JSON back to the browser (ok, it might have a handful of html pages, but they're rare) - A fat client in Javascript / JQuery on the client - possibly with MVC if the app is complex enough, possibly using a library (see below) - though rolling your own is also quite viable. - Handlebars.js for client-side templating, to actually build the html. (and it means if you must build html server-side, you can share your mustache templates on both layers) And browser state managed through the dreaded # anchors. Html5 and browser.pushstate might make them redundant one day, but for now they just work. There are many big wins if you build apps this way - not least, real separation of concerns, and great testability. I'd go further into this, but I have to go... might add some more later. Some libraries that are looking cool in this area: - Sammy.js - Backbone.js - Sproutcore (I believe - haven't looked at it myself, I prefer lower-level libraries rather than "do everything") You may say I'm a dreamer... but I'm not the only one. - Korny On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:02 PM, jamesl <ladd.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought the readers here would appreciate this article: > > > http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/mvc-architecture-for-javascript-applications > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com http://korny.info "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
