What Javascript framework integrates well with Grails?

Question

Most of the applications that we produce for the front end uses Grails and we love it to death but we are exploring Javascript frameworks such as backbone.js, ember.js for templating, reusability. We are comfortable and familiar with json and would like to know what are some experiences and recommendations for a Javascript framework that plays nice with Grails.

Would like to understand the evaluation criteria, cost of implementation and learning curve involved.

Answer 1

backbone is fully flexible framework, and can be used with grails without any pain (and I've used it, with Grails). I compatible with most js libs (jquery, zepto, etc), with most client side templating languages, etc.

ember as I see is more high level, but have some constraints for your app architecture, for example it works best when you're using handlebars. So you need to learn a new templating language, at least. And I'm not sure that there is server-side renderers for handlebars (for case when you want to render page on server side as well)