You might be interested in this article: http://addyosmani.com/blog/large-scale-jquery/
Contains a comparison of a lot of the javascript mvc frameworks mentioned in this thread as well as a bunch of other stuff for anyone interested in javascript heavy apps. Chris. On Feb 28, 12:56 pm, Korny Sietsma <ko...@sietsma.com> wrote: > ... and also the rather more sensible (and linked from the below) pages > at:http://blog.benward.me/post/3231388630 > <http://blog.benward.me/post/3231388630>andhttp://www.adequatelygood.com/2011/2/Thoughts-on-the-Hashbang > > <http://www.adequatelygood.com/2011/2/Thoughts-on-the-Hashbang>from folks at > Twitter. > > My feeling is that the hash-bang is an ugly necessary evil, with a clear > migration path once enough browsers support pushState. > You can wait for ie10 - or you can use the workaround. And if you have > enough money to spend, you can do both. > > Current browser support:http://caniuse.com/#feat=history > > - Korny > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Gareth Townsend > <gareth.towns...@me.com>wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Everyone heading down this path should read up on why Hash Bang URL's > > suck: > > >http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs > > > On 26/02/2011, at 6:20 PM, Korny Sietsma wrote: > > > 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-appl... > > >> -- > >> 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 comhttp://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. > > > -- > > 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 comhttp://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. 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