Want to write a modern webapp using lots of javascript? Here’s my recommended toolkit:
- CoffeeScript for brevity
- Jquery for sanity
- Jquery UI (with Aristo) for your design and widgets
- Underscore.js for your views (see _.template)
- Backbone.js for your models andd controllerts
- Jammit for asset packaging
I’ve only recently discovered backbone and jammit, but I have a lot of respect for Jeremy so they’re my bet.