Re: Single Page Applications

[Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I tend to find most frameworks too opinionated and therefore as one
fades and the next grows into prominence there is quite a bit of
relearning.  Most of the web development I do is SPA with jQuery/jQuery
mobile for mobile/responsive design.  I occasionally develop only with
jQuery and HTML5.

Yeah, jQuery/JQM is a library, not a framework, but since 95% of my
development is JS (libraries and "pure" JS) on the client side and
servlets serving DB2 data in JSON format on the server side, that loose
coupling allows the .Net guys here to leverage the same HTML5/jQuery
scripting to get at the data: They add the javascript file and add the
HTML elements to the page and they are done.  So it is all framework
agnostic. I may do a SPA, or a JSP, or a portlet or the .Net guys create
an .aspx form and we are all calling the same servlet code on the
backend.  Ajax/JSON makes it all very easy.

MVC frameworks are great for some folks, and that is fine (I think
Ember.js is very cool!) but I am finding that JS/Ajax on the client with
JSON returned by the server is about as simple and portable as it gets.


Pete Helgren
www.petesworkshop.com
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java

On 5/24/2015 3:25 PM, Kevin Turner wrote:
> Angular + bootstrap is probably a good choice for those late to the SPA party. We rolled our own back in 2005 and have gone through several iterations to get it right since then - and have invested too much time to consider throwing the baby out with the bath water. Sometimes you just have to get on with it as opposed to debating it endlessly on forums