[franze]

well, i just traveled south east asia for a few months, and lets say where i traveled (lots of islands, beaches in myanmar, cambodia, thailand) there was no internet, still i needed to code a very specific webapp for my 5 year old son (an mp3 concatenatior)

i will outline my experience on the next viennajs (our local JS meetup) http://www.meetup.com/viennajs/events/126159362/?_af_eid=126... in a talk called "coding an awesome real world problem solving web-app without internet access after your girlfriend deleted your dev-setup on a device that hates developers while traveling south east asia" - i will post the slides to HN after the talk. but (SPOILER) the conclusion as it contributes to this discussion:

EMBRACE THE INTERNET

    - right click "view source" is a gift from the gods
    - github is even better
    - read the f_cking source, luke

google is the tool to find source-code, and without other source-code, other websites to look at, your are definitely alone, reinventing one wheel (baldy) after the other.

so google away, but not looking for frameworks and other ready made solutions, but for (example or real world) sourcecode and understanding.

note: the only thing bearable to code without internet access was the chrome dev-tools, with auto-complete and object-inspection you can piece together most HTML5y APIs.