Ionic with Backbone

[paynecodes]

I love what your doing with this project, but my current project requires the use of Backbone. What sort of roadblocks might I run into trying to integrate ionic with Backbone? I understand that much of the JavaScript logic in js/ext/angular would be useless for me, but it seems as if the rest of your codebase was written to work across many frameworks.

I'm only filing this issue because I have been doing quite a bit of digging into the codebase, and can't make up my mind if it's worth trying ionic with Backbone.

[somethingnew2-0]

Have a look at #385

[paynecodes]

@somethingnew2-0 Awesome! Thank you. How far along would you say this process is? 50%? 90%?

[somethingnew2-0]

@mlynch?

[mlynch]

Hey @jpdesigndev. Right now I'd say it's very possible to use Ionic without Angular. However, it means building and using a lot of the components through Javascript, and at this time going through the angular directives and seeing how we use the low level components.

Take a look at the low-level API on the side menu for an example of how this works: http://ionicframework.com/docs/angularjs/controllers/side-menu/

We are going to be documenting and releasing lower-level API docs soon.

[paynecodes]

@mlynch Thanks for your quick response. I see that you have some low level API docs in place. I'll continue the journey and let you know when I decide how feasible this is going to be.

As an aside, it looks like your controllers and views are Backbone-esqe, so I should be able to simply extend ionic.controllers.SideMenuController, ionic.views.SideMenu, ionic.views.SideMenuContent and reference your low-level API docs to do some stuff. Am I missing something important here?

[mlynch]

@jpdesigndev, nope, that's the basic idea. If you find them good on their own, you can just give them the DOM node for the left and/or right menu, and the center content and it'll work.

Some ones that won't work as is are the navigation system using Angular UI-router, though writing a URL-free nav system (which is what we started with) is actually a lot easier. Tabs might be a little more annoying to use without Angular, but not that much.

[paynecodes]

@mlynch Thanks again. Keep up the good work. I'm going to give it a try for sure.

[jonas-db]

I cannot find those low level apis anymore, any updates on this?

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