dev.enekoalonso.com » android http://dev.enekoalonso.com having fun with code Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:40:17 +0000 en hourly 1 MooTools Core for Server and Mobile Development http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2010/09/17/mootools-core-for-server-and-mobile-development/ http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2010/09/17/mootools-core-for-server-and-mobile-development/#comments Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:50:30 +0000 Eneko Alonso http://dev.enekoalonso.com/?p=655 One of the best things of MooTools is that it is very modular, from the core itself. This means you don’t need to include all core elements in your projects if you don’t want or don’t need some modules. For example, you may not want to include Array or Function, if you don’t need any enhancements of such objects.

In the case of server side or mobile applications (Titanium Developer and other Javascript based mobile frameworks), there is no browser involved which means there is no DOM. Thus, we can removed any kind of module that depend or are designed to work with this elements: Browser, Element, Selectors, Cookie… all those modules have no value for server side or mobile applications.

I found this page which summarizes the modules you should need for server or mobile development:

MooTools Core
Core: core
Native: Array, Function, Number, String, Hash
Class: Class, Class.Extras

MooTools More
Core: More
Class: Class.Refactor, Class.Binds, Class.Occludes

http://onecrayon.com/spice/docs/mootools-server/

Personally, I don’t find the MooTools More modules very useful, so I’m not including them in my projects. Maybe Binds would be a good addition, but it is not critical.

Having MooTools in a Javascript application makes it easier to develop and brings you all the power of Object Oriented programming with classes, inheritance and more.

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I still hate it. And I still love it.

More to come…

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The good things

Nice, easy and fast. Creating apps is piece of cake, loading JSON feeds from Internet, using local storage, placing buttons and labels on the screen… it’s all easy and it works on both iPhone and Android right away.

The bad things

Titanium Developer looks like an unfinished app. It shouldn’t be version 1.X, not even 0.X. Looks like an alpha, buggy and very easy to get screwed up, specially if you share your projects between Windows and Mac. This time it launches the emulator, this time it does not. This time your project does not load properly. Next time, you try to create a new project and it fails. And the errors are totally useless. Not very helpful.

Conclusion

The idea is great, awesome. The code is clean and using Javascript for development makes it easy for web developers to get easily involved into mobile app development. If only the Appcelerator team could improve their app, we would save a lot of headaches.

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