dnajd

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   Acceptable or Not?

   3 points by dnajd 9y ago|2 comments
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   by dnajd 14y ago

   Looking at the definition of controllers here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93cont... how are backbone.js 'views' not controllers? Or does this logic belong in the Route.js file? I am clearly confused. FYI.. rail
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   by dnajd 14y ago

   Why are the backbone.js controllers called 'views' and the views called 'templates'?
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   by dnajd 14y ago

   There is the straw man again. If you are creating a completely client side app and you find it's better to have some work done on the server side... why not use mature existing server side technology along with client side technologies. It
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   by dnajd 14y ago

   That was the straw man I was thinking I saw in the post. Why not use rails to load the page (no BYO framework involved) and then use javascript/backbone/etc on the client-side; as opposed to bringing the client-side technologies server-side
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   by dnajd 14y ago

   I'm utterly confused. The main benefit of this approach is summed up in the paragraph: "Compare this with serving the full search results HTML from the server.... It feels 5x faster." But doesn't ruby on rails (and most other web stacks) a