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jQuery Mobile, Backbone.js, and ASP.NET MVC

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Troy Miles
Troy Miles

This document discusses using jQuery Mobile, Backbone, and ASP.NET MVC to create a framework for building mobile web applications. It describes the components used, including ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Underscore.js and Backbone.js. It also outlines how these pieces work together, with ASP.NET MVC serving initial pages and data, jQuery Mobile handling the UI, and Backbone handling data on the client through models, views and collections.

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jQuery Mobile, Backbone, and ASP.NET MVC A Framework for Making Mobile Web Applications Tuesday, March 5, 13
Introduction Tuesday, March 5, 13
Who Am I? • Troy Miles • Senior Software Engineer w/ 30+ years of experience • Mobile/Mobile Web • iOS, Android, & Windows Phone 7 Tuesday, March 5, 13
Tuesday, March 5, 13
Intermediate PhoneGap • Learn by doing • JS best practices, iScroll, Maps, Ajax + more • Saturday, May 18th - 9 AM to 6 PM • $99 - lunch & materials included • http://bit.ly/XlxzYp • CraveLab - Los Angeles Tuesday, March 5, 13
You May Get Mad At Me • Sorry, in advance if I insult your favorite: company, device, or personality • I have nothing against any of these companies • I will gladly do a project for any of them, for the right price Tuesday, March 5, 13
What we aren’t going to cover • HTML 5 • Client Side Validation • SQL Server or other databases • Security • Offline Tuesday, March 5, 13
What We Will Cover    • Web Apps. vs Device Apps. • Components • Framework • Why Do It This Way? • Tools of the Trade • Tips from the Trenches • Summary Tuesday, March 5, 13
85% of all US adults now own a mobile phone Tuesday, March 5, 13
56% of all mobile phone owners in the US access the internet. Tuesday, March 5, 13
Did you know 80% of customers abandon a mobile site if they have a bad user experience? Tuesday, March 5, 13
Web Apps Device Apps Can migrate web skills Longer learning curve One source base Many source bases Deploy when you want Deployment needs approval You choose when to update User chooses when to update No device memory used Uses device memory Difficult to monetize Monetization is built-in Restricted device access Full access to device hardware Slower Faster Tuesday, March 5, 13
Components • ASP.NET MVC • jQuery • jQuery Mobile • Underscore.js • Backbone.js Tuesday, March 5, 13
ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC gives you a powerful, patterns-based way to build dynamic websites that enables a clean separation of concerns and that gives you full control over markup for enjoyable, agile development. ASP.NET MVC includes many features that enable fast, TDD-friendly development for creating sophisticated applications that use the latest web standards. Tuesday, March 5, 13
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript. Tuesday, March 5, 13
A unified, HTML5-based user interface system for all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement, and has a flexible, easily theme-able design.  Requires jQuery. Tuesday, March 5, 13
Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects.  Tuesday, March 5, 13
Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface. Requires Underscore and jQuery. Tuesday, March 5, 13
The Framework • ASP.NET MVC • jQuery/jQuery Mobile • The Kernel • Backbone Tuesday, March 5, 13
ASP.NET MVC  • Serves the initial page • Serves data in a RESTful fashion Tuesday, March 5, 13
jQuery Mobile • Handles the UI • Tuesday, March 5, 13
Backbone.js • Handles the data on client • Models • Views • Collections Tuesday, March 5, 13
Models Tuesday, March 5, 13
Views Tuesday, March 5, 13
Collections Tuesday, March 5, 13
Why Do It This Way? • Best User Experience (think speed) • Lower Server Utilization • Easier Maintenance Tuesday, March 5, 13
Tools of the Trade • Chrome Browser (other webkit browser) • Fiddler2 Tuesday, March 5, 13
7 Tips from the Trenches • Beware of Browser Madness • Use an Analog • Use Unique Ids on Markup • Reference the active page • Use the pageinit event not $(document).ready() • Avoid Sloppy JavaScript • Always Test on a Device Tuesday, March 5, 13
Next Steps • Download the source code and play with it • Minify the code • Use CDNs for open source code Tuesday, March 5, 13
Summary jQuery Mobile is an easy to use framework which enables you to create mobile apps quickly.  Tuesday, March 5, 13
Links • ASP.NET MVC - http://www.asp.net/ • jQuery - http://jquery.com/ • jQuery Mobile - http://jquerymobile.com/ • Underscore - http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore Backbone - http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone • JSLint - http://jslint.com/ Tuesday, March 5, 13
Books jQuery Mobile Jon Reid Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media Inc., 2011 Master Mobile Web Apps with jQuery Mobile 2nd ed. Matt Doyle Brighton, UK: Elated Communications Ltd, 2011 Tuesday, March 5, 13
The Source Code is on GitHub at: https://github.com/Rockncoder/ JQMContacts2013 Tuesday, March 5, 13

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  • 1. jQuery Mobile, Backbone, and ASP.NET MVC A Framework for Making Mobile Web Applications Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 3. Who Am I? • Troy Miles • Senior Software Engineer w/ 30+ years of experience • Mobile/Mobile Web • iOS, Android, & Windows Phone 7 Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 5. Intermediate PhoneGap • Learn by doing • JS best practices, iScroll, Maps, Ajax + more • Saturday, May 18th - 9 AM to 6 PM • $99 - lunch & materials included • http://bit.ly/XlxzYp • CraveLab - Los Angeles Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 6. You May Get Mad At Me • Sorry, in advance if I insult your favorite: company, device, or personality • I have nothing against any of these companies • I will gladly do a project for any of them, for the right price Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 7. What we aren’t going to cover • HTML 5 • Client Side Validation • SQL Server or other databases • Security • Offline Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 8. What We Will Cover    • Web Apps. vs Device Apps. • Components • Framework • Why Do It This Way? • Tools of the Trade • Tips from the Trenches • Summary Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 9. 85% of all US adults now own a mobile phone Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 10. 56% of all mobile phone owners in the US access the internet. Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 11. Did you know 80% of customers abandon a mobile site if they have a bad user experience? Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 12. Web Apps Device Apps Can migrate web skills Longer learning curve One source base Many source bases Deploy when you want Deployment needs approval You choose when to update User chooses when to update No device memory used Uses device memory Difficult to monetize Monetization is built-in Restricted device access Full access to device hardware Slower Faster Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 13. Components • ASP.NET MVC • jQuery • jQuery Mobile • Underscore.js • Backbone.js Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 14. ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC gives you a powerful, patterns-based way to build dynamic websites that enables a clean separation of concerns and that gives you full control over markup for enjoyable, agile development. ASP.NET MVC includes many features that enable fast, TDD-friendly development for creating sophisticated applications that use the latest web standards. Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 15. jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript. Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 16. A unified, HTML5-based user interface system for all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement, and has a flexible, easily theme-able design.  Requires jQuery. Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 17. Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects.  Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 18. Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface. Requires Underscore and jQuery. Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 19. The Framework • ASP.NET MVC • jQuery/jQuery Mobile • The Kernel • Backbone Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 20. ASP.NET MVC  • Serves the initial page • Serves data in a RESTful fashion Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 21. jQuery Mobile • Handles the UI • Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 22. Backbone.js • Handles the data on client • Models • Views • Collections Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 26. Why Do It This Way? • Best User Experience (think speed) • Lower Server Utilization • Easier Maintenance Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 27. Tools of the Trade • Chrome Browser (other webkit browser) • Fiddler2 Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 28. 7 Tips from the Trenches • Beware of Browser Madness • Use an Analog • Use Unique Ids on Markup • Reference the active page • Use the pageinit event not $(document).ready() • Avoid Sloppy JavaScript • Always Test on a Device Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 29. Next Steps • Download the source code and play with it • Minify the code • Use CDNs for open source code Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 30. Summary jQuery Mobile is an easy to use framework which enables you to create mobile apps quickly.  Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 31. Links • ASP.NET MVC - http://www.asp.net/ • jQuery - http://jquery.com/ • jQuery Mobile - http://jquerymobile.com/ • Underscore - http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore Backbone - http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone • JSLint - http://jslint.com/ Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 32. Books jQuery Mobile Jon Reid Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media Inc., 2011 Master Mobile Web Apps with jQuery Mobile 2nd ed. Matt Doyle Brighton, UK: Elated Communications Ltd, 2011 Tuesday, March 5, 13
  • 33. The Source Code is on GitHub at: https://github.com/Rockncoder/ JQMContacts2013 Tuesday, March 5, 13