On 28/05/2012, at 8:26 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > is there a better alternative that you could recommend over jQuery ?
JQuery is excellent, but it has limitations, and using JQuery exclusively to build a web app on the client side can make your code difficult to maintain, depending on the complexity of your app. AngularJS is a Google-funded framework, which is based on JQuery - it uses JQuery at its core. You can develop more complex apps in a much simpler way than with JQuery, using Angular, and still use JQuery for interface 'special effects' and extra interactivity, if you wish. Angular is easy to well-documented, easy to learn, and has an active and helpful online community: http://angularjs.org/ There are many, *many* frameworks out there for building client-side javascript-based web apps. Most of them are complex, and will require a substantial amount of commitment for you to learn effectively. Some of the better known ones are: http://sproutcore.com/ http://cappuccino.org/ http://dojotoolkit.org/ http://emberjs.com/ IMHO, Angular is currently the best in terms of ease of learning, and features - and one of the ones likely to last the longest, due to its Google backing. I hope this helps. -- Igor Couto Sydney, Australia _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
