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Re: Jetstrap for Bootstrap

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Post by yesimahuman »

tharshan09 wrote: post #53

Could you let us in on how to go about implementing such an interface? You don't have to go into specifics but if you used any tools or frameworks that you found invaluable etc, it would be nice to know.

Sure. The stack on the frontend is Backbone.js with Handlebars.js templates (and jQuery, of course). I used CoffeeScript's classes heavily to compartmentalize stuff.

Object orientation is your friend with these kinds of tools. We based a bit of the internal component model off of Java's AWT and Swing, making sure that each component we built was reusable in any situation, making it extremely easy to add new components.

Just like in the DOM, you are performing operations on a tree structure, so recursion and iterative optimization is important (especially in Javascript where function calls are expensive).

Other than that, it's just a lot of event handling and DOM manipulation.

Re: Jetstrap for Bootstrap

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Post by yesimahuman »

joelrunyon wrote: post #63

This looks great. I noticed the "try it for free." Are there plans to turn this into a paid product at some point? How limited is the trial?

Yes, we will eventually charge for it once we work out some of the kinks in the beta. Our first thought was $10/mo for 100 screens (though I agree with the feedback below, so this will probably go up). Any feedback on that?

Re: Jetstrap for Bootstrap

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Post by adamt »

Looks very pretty, but can't decide if this is useful or not. I love bootstap, but I am not convinced this is much quicker than a text editor (even if it is much prettier)

Quick bug report:

MacOS/Chrome (latest) - create navbar - click or double click on the bar, and you get errors.

Uncaught TypeError: Object # has no method 'apply' jquery.js:3332 jQuery.event.dispatch jquery.js:3332 jQuery.event.add.elemData.handle.eventHandle

Re: Jetstrap for Bootstrap

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Post by ninetax »

yesimahuman wrote: post #64
joelrunyon wrote: post #63

This looks great. I noticed the "try it for free." Are there plans to turn this into a paid product at some point? How limited is the trial?

Yes, we will eventually charge for it once we work out some of the kinks in the beta. Our first thought was $10/mo for 100 screens (though I agree with the feedback below, so this will probably go up). Any feedback on that?

Sounds good to me!

Re: Jetstrap for Bootstrap

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Post by andreshb »

yesimahuman wrote: post #64
joelrunyon wrote: post #63

This looks great. I noticed the "try it for free." Are there plans to turn this into a paid product at some point? How limited is the trial?

Yes, we will eventually charge for it once we work out some of the kinks in the beta. Our first thought was $10/mo for 100 screens (though I agree with the feedback below, so this will probably go up). Any feedback on that?

take my money

Re: Jetstrap for Bootstrap

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Post by yesimahuman »

adamt wrote: post #65

Looks very pretty, but can't decide if this is useful or not. I love bootstap, but I am not convinced this is much quicker than a text editor (even if it is much prettier) Quick bug report: MacOS/Chrome (latest) - create navbar - click or double click on the bar, and you get errors. Uncaught TypeError: Object # has no method 'apply' jquery.js:3332 jQuery.event.dispatch jquery.js:3332 jQuery.event.add.elemData.handle.…

Sure. One of my personal bootstrap pain points I wanted to solve was I often failed to properly use certain complicated bootstrap components. The better you get the less this becomes a big issue.

One way to use Jetstrap is to just generate snippets of Bootstrap if you already have a large code base and just want to copy and paste complicated components.

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