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by gfodor
5233 days ago
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Just thought I'd throw out SmartClient here: http://www.smartclient.com/ It's an example of what you get when you follow the "framework does everything but the kitchen sink" philosophy to the end and pile on feature after feature. (It's open source, too!) It's great if you need to hack together a "enterprisey" client and don't really care about style or extendability (rare but these requirements happen.) The databinding support, controls, and the amount of stuff it does out of the box is absolutely incredible for a free open source framework. But, it's ugly as hell, bloated, and if you want to do anything off the beaten path, you're fucked. But it's a remarkable piece of engineering that goes under the radar (similar to OpenLaszlo) but also a cautionary tale for the Ember guys to not take it too far. |
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Luckily, providing a widget library is, and will always be, outside the scope of Ember.js. While we'd be quite pleased to see someone else develop a widget library on top of Ember, it's not something that we're personally interested in doing.
The goal of Ember.js is to roll up common patterns web developers are using into the framework so that they can write less boilerplate. In fact, part of the reason we renamed SproutCore 2.0 to Ember.js was to emphasize the point that our value proposition is in the architecture, not the library of controls.
As a veteran of the SproutCore project, keeping things lean and focused is my top priority. And, if it helps, we're all extremely allergic to anything that feels "enterprisey." :P