Creating Mobile Version for Your Backbone.js App using jQuery Mobile

[gnufied]

https://supportbee.com/devblog/2013/02/12/jquery-mobile-backbone-backbone/

[y0ghur7_xxx]

Last time I checked jQuery Mobile transitions worked only on iOS. If this is still the case, it's not usable for cross platform mobile web apps.

[prateekdayal → y0ghur7_xxx]

It works pretty well on Android too. We tested both on iPhone and a few androids (lower end/higher end). It might work on other phones too but we did not test it out.

[tbassetto]

jQuery Mobile, Backbone & Bootstrap for a mobile app? It makes me dizzy just thinking about the amount of code the mobile phone will have to download/execute.

[knowtheory → tbassetto]

Oh?

Backbone is 18k minified (uncompressed)

Underscore is 13k minified (uncompressed)

Bootstrap's js is 20k minified (uncompressed)

jQuery minified is ~32k minified & compressed

and jQuery Mobile the heaviest of the lot is ~81kb minified & compressed.

So how dizzy does that make you?

[gnufied → tbassetto]

What do you propose? I for one cheer for anyone who is out there supporting Mobile Web. Try the app btw, it works quite well on my Incredible S.

[y0ghur7_xxx → gnufied]

> What do you propose?

jqMobi is imho the better alternative[1] for single page mobile JS apps at the moment. But not because of the size, but because it works better.

[1]http://s2.diffuse.it/blog/show/14823-Mobile_HTML_Frameworks_...

[gnufied → y0ghur7_xxx]

Interesting comparison. Thanks for linking it. I am not the developer of SupportBee app, but the comparison is useful nonetheless.