Here is a mobile version of my Backbone.js Employee Directory application using jQuery Mobile as the UI toolkit. As described in my previous post, jQuery Mobile was (at least initially) intended as a full-stack framework as opposed to a pure UI toolkit like Twitter Bootstrap. As such, it overlaps with the Backbone.js infrastructure in some [...]
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Using Backbone.js with jQuery Mobile
By Christophe Coenraets on March 5, 2012 in Backbone.js, HTML 5, JavaScript, JQuery Mobile, PhoneGap
Backbone.js is an architectural framework that helps you write well-structured Web applications. It is not, however, a user interface framework and it therefore doesn’t help you with the way your application looks. Backbone’s confined scope is a good thing: it’s lightweight, non-intrusive, not coupled to things you don’t need, and it lets you use the [...]
jQuery Mobile "Getting Started" Application
A couple of weeks ago, I shared an Employee Directory sample application built with jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap. That application was implemented “Ajax-style”, keeping the UI and the data access code cleanly separated. In other words: no server code intermingled in the HTML markup. A number of people have asked for a similar example using [...]
Sample App: Mobile jQuery without jQuery Mobile
Let me preface this post by saying that I’m not advocating this approach versus the other. These are just experiments.
Sample Application using jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap
Here is a simple application I built using jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap. Even though the application is simple, it covers some common requirements of mobile applications: database access through JSON services, multi-level master-detail views, parameter passing between views, etc. You can play with the application here, or download the source code below and build it [...]