This is cool, but is it possible to generate apps w/o relying entirely on Ajax?
Truthfully, this style architecture is the root cause of almost all of our support tickets. Our percieved load time has gone up quite a bit as data tables, forms and property lists all need to be re-populated with every page load...
If users try to trigger an editor prior to event handlers binding fully, at best nothing happens; at worst unpredictable things (eg: orphaned records/workflows, things only appearing to have been edited/deleted, etc).
And probably the biggest problem I have with giving this much responsibility to the front-end is dealing with the mountains of interdependent JavaScript.
All these things are solvable, I know: for example push state helps with the page load problems, event queuing helps keep ultra-clicky users in check and having solid conventions helps keep JS organized properly; but I still find myself always going back to relying on tried-and-true progressively-enhanced HTML.
On that note, I have to give props as it is a breath of fresh air to see all these great technologies used in a framework like this.
Truthfully, this style architecture is the root cause of almost all of our support tickets. Our percieved load time has gone up quite a bit as data tables, forms and property lists all need to be re-populated with every page load...
If users try to trigger an editor prior to event handlers binding fully, at best nothing happens; at worst unpredictable things (eg: orphaned records/workflows, things only appearing to have been edited/deleted, etc).
And probably the biggest problem I have with giving this much responsibility to the front-end is dealing with the mountains of interdependent JavaScript.
All these things are solvable, I know: for example push state helps with the page load problems, event queuing helps keep ultra-clicky users in check and having solid conventions helps keep JS organized properly; but I still find myself always going back to relying on tried-and-true progressively-enhanced HTML.
On that note, I have to give props as it is a breath of fresh air to see all these great technologies used in a framework like this.