Changes this week (and a few during the holiday last week)

[Matt Dean]

My focus over the past week has been on adding a jQuery/Zepto-like abstraction layer on top of the Titanium views. The primary goals are to improve the API and limit the need to override methods on libraries such as Backbone.

For example, in earlier versions we overrode the 'make' method in Backbone.View to create a Titanium view instead of an element:

  make: (viewName) ->

    ti.createView viewName

Last week, however, Backbone removed the 'make' method completely in favor of using jQuery directly via $('<div>') for creation of elements. Now titanium-backbone supports view creation via $('<View>'), so we can eliminate 'make', too.

I provided some documentation of what's currently handled by the API at https://github.com/trabian/titanium-backbone/blob/refactor/src/tb/lib/ti/README.md, and you can see the full commit history at https://github.com/trabian/titanium-backbone/compare/7de6302%E2%80%A6acefee5.

Any thoughts? Has anyone else tried a similar approach? This seems to match the approach pursued by Kranium (https://github.com/krawaller/kranium). If I have an opportunity this week I'll see if I can get in touch with the authors of that library.

[Matt Dean]

Also, here's a small code snippet to illustrate some of the API changes introduced this week: https://gist.github.com/4453777.