Strophe，belimberjs和jquery-mobile

Question

I want to build a MVC structured mobile app with backbonejs. I searched the web for information and I only found the strophe backbone plugins for:

strophe.pubsub.js
strophe.forms.js
strophe.vcard.js
strophe.private.js
strophe.roster.js

Can I run into problems with using backbone.js and Strophe together?

Answer 1

You are probably referring to my own strophe.plugins . Those will of course work fine out of the box, in addition they are fully test-covered. You can of course use any other plugin with Strophe, it does not collide with Backbone in any way.

Keep in mind strophe.plugins while independently working, were written to be used together with Backbone.xmpp . I wrote that library to allow you to sync your Backbone models/collections with XMPP PubSub nodes, giving you real-time events on all your clients.

Here's a demo of how that works in practice with two clients.

Answer 2

No problems using the libraries together.

About 12 months ago, I was part of a small team who used Backbone.js and strophe to implement a one page social networking web app using xmpp / ejabberd as the primary messaging platform.... we ended up redesigning it, replacing ejabberd for a custom RESTful api ( http://beta.playup.com ).

There are a few issues you need to think about - esp when writing a one page app, such as connection management. As you are creating a stophe connection client side, you need a way to re-connect the users account on page refresh (as the js is obviously reloaded).

We also ran into memory leak problems. Be careful when throwing custom events in Backbone Views... as you will need to manually unbind them when you are done with a view. If you don't the view remains active through the bound event, and is not GC'd. This means you probably have to introduce a bit of a lifecycle in your app.

Generally speaking though, this will only be a problem if you are doing a web app of some size.