Building Touch Interfaces with HTML5: Develop and Design Speed up your site and create amazing user experiences

Appendix B. Mobile Frameworks

This book has largely avoided discussion of frameworks. In real life, I recommend using them where it makes sense—if someone else has solved the problem you’re fighting with, it can be a real relief.

This appendix covers four types of tools:

• The first set aren’t frameworks at all, but mobile libraries that focus on doing as little as possible but still help reduce the amount of basic boilerplate code you need to write.

• The second set—touch-focused UI frameworks—are full-scale frameworks, many of which also provide a widget library to help you quickly create controls for your application.

• The third set are MVC frameworks, the tools you need if you’re building something large and complex.

• The last set are special-purpose ...