quick poll - frameworks

[Joe Developer]

Hiyas,

I am burning to know:

1. What are you using on top of phonegap for your projects?

2. Why that particular stack?

3. How did you come across it?

4. Is it everything you hoped for, better? Looking for something else?

Thanks!

[Luke Melia]

On Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Joe Developer wrote:

1. What are you using on top of phonegap for your projects?

Ember.js 

2. Why that particular stack?

Clean and powerful. 

3. How did you come across it?

Via the SproutCore community. 

4. Is it everything you hoped for, better? Looking for something else?

It is a young framework and still maturing, and you need to build your own UI pieces on top of it. However, I was previously using jQuery Mobile and found that to be lacking in some categories that Ember excels at. For example, it did not allow enough fine-grained UI control, code was not clean, and it did not provide a nice MVC structure to build within. That was a beta of JQM, so it may have improved since then.

Cheers,

Luke 

[Lee Howard]

On Tuesday, February 7, 2012 11:17:25 AM UTC-5, joedev wrote:

Hiyas,

I am burning to know:

1. What are you using on top of phonegap for your projects?

 

jquery-mobile-angular-adapter -  https://github.com/tigbro/jquery-mobile-angular-adapter 

with of course

jquery mobile and angularjs

2. Why that particular stack?

 

1st. I want a framework that handles the mobile UI aspects.  I am familiar with jquery, so jquery mobile seems like the obvious choice.

2nd. I want client side templating

3rd. angularjs makes you use MVC and it uses dependency injection which keeps things decoupled and easy to test - although I am not doing any automated testing at the moment. 

3. How did you come across it?

 

jquery mobile from jquery and angularjs from followin Miško Hevery's testing blog.   The adapter that makes them work together I found by google search.  

 

4. Is it everything you hoped for, better? Looking for something else?

 

I have tried other approaches, but haven't found anything I like better.   The adapter works well, but it's clear that these frameworks weren't really made for each other and sometimes it's a little difficult to determine which component is causing problems.  And then of course throw in phonegap for another set of anomalies.  

Don't get me wrong because in the end it works pretty well and these are all great frameworks.    I just wish there was some combined effort to make them all play together nicely.   

I am also interested in seeing other responses to this...

 

Thanks!

[Don Tech]

> 1. What are you using on top of phonegap for your projects?

- zepto.js. Lightweight (much much more lightweight then Jquery
Mobile).

> 2. Why that particular stack?

Initially i started out with xuijs.com, but the features and support
for Zepto is a lot better.

> 3. How did you come across it?

After wasting too much time with xuijs.

> 4. Is it everything you hoped for, better? Looking for something else?

I've pretty much coded up my own framework at this point... It seems
that everything out there is too bloated ( JQM, Sensa) or too lacking
( Zepto is awesome but doesn't do anything for UI )

[Kerri Shotts]

On Tuesday, February 7, 2012 10:17:25 AM UTC-6, joedev wrote:

Hiyas,

I am burning to know: 

1. What are you using on top of phonegap for your projects?

Using iScroll for the scrolling portion. Everything else is a custom framework built from scratch and tidbits from the web. Changing every day, too! An older version of the framework is at https://github.com/kerrishotts/iSite-Mobile; after this current app is finished, all the changes will be rolled back into the public repo.

 

2. Why that particular stack?

Firstly, nothing else felt right. (No disrespect to anyone else here.) Second, not everything looked right. (And granted, not everything looks right in mine, either.) Third, I needed a framework that would easily support loading separate pages (that is, I didn't want to have to build the whole thing in one big file.) Fourth, I wanted as much as possible to use straight-up html/css/js to accomplish the goals without using a lot of other libraries like jQuery, etc.

 

3. How did you come across it?

iScroll was found in a google search. As has everything else that isn't mine. :-)

 

4. Is it everything you hoped for, better? Looking for something else?

So far, very good. Not really looking for anything else. I have a few performance issues to work out, some glitchiness with transitions, but everything is pretty minor stuff. 

 

Thanks!

[Giacomo Balli]

nothing. :)
I believe often times full frameworks are overkill...

On Feb 8, 5:42 am, Kerri Shotts <kerrisho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 7, 2012 10:17:25 AM UTC-6, joedev wrote:
>
> > Hiyas,
>
> > I am burning to know:
>
> > 1. What are you using on top of phonegap for your projects?
>
> Using iScroll for the scrolling portion. Everything else is a custom
> framework built from scratch and tidbits from the web. Changing every day,
> too! An older version of the framework is

> athttps://github.com/kerrishotts/iSite-Mobile;after this current app is