I am a bit behind the game, FreeMind, an awesome mind mapping application for which I have an on-again-off-again love affair with, recently released their 1.0 Beta release! This is a huge milestone…and it happened about two months ago (like I said, on-again-off-again). I’m installing it now and will cover my first impressions after the break!
I had the recent luxury of looking over various HTML5 frameworks in both a professional and personal environment. Keeping up on web the latest and greatest web development technologies is often a daunting task, and sifting through the world of ANYTHING HTML5 can be plagued with “analysis paralysis”: There is just too much out there that if you don’t jump in feet first you’ll still be doggy paddling when the sharks come.
The three primary frameworks that I’ll take a look at are: Ext JS 4, JavascriptMVC and Backbone.js. I am going to cover them by their descending levels of complexity and ultimate placement on the podium (there is a correlation, and if you wish you can jump to the final section to read about why I think Backbone.js is an excellent option). I’ll try to keep my overviews to a paragraph, you are all free to do the hoof work and research each one (and others) but I said this was a very brief overview.