Framework discussion

[fjaguero]

The main question:

What framework are we going to use for this? should we try recroom?, or maybe mithril, what @willyaranda is using on twitta.

[sebasmagri]

I haven't looked into the details of each one, but seems like mithril is more mature and has a more stable API already. While the tooling from recroom seems promising, we'd consider stability first.

Also, we should consider the didactic sense of these projects. Thus, the framework we use should not only be easy to learn and use but also be focused on standards, good practices and design guidelines.

Regards,

[fjaguero]

@willyaranda has been working with mithril enough to say if it's a good option to go with. In the other hand, recroom uses Ember.

[sebasmagri]

Well, last time I used Ember for a FxOS app (https://github.com/sebasmagri/reddiefox) it turned out to be pretty heavy weight.

We'd do POCs as well to back up our final decision.

[fjaguero]

Ok, I didn't use Ember for mobile before. We can try that POC with Ember 1.7.0. The only drawback I see with mithril is that the code is much harder to understand, specially for people starting with an MVC. In the other hand, mithril is 10x faster than Ember.

[willyaranda]

I started with Mithril because it's really lightweight and it was a challenge for me to know a new framework :)

I always think that you should start with the framework you know, since it's easy to iterate in that case.

[ccarruitero]

Not sure if we should use a framework.

A framework helps you to organize your code and give you useful tools, but if we plan to use this app to teach, I think we should maintain this more simple possible.

Why not start just with javascript? Is something that majority knows

[fjaguero]

The thing is that we will be reinventing the whell for view handling, etc; and would have some problems specially in terms of performance.

It's another option anyway, any comments?