JavaScript for Line of Business Applications

In doing our trainings and in writing my book, Human JavaScript and within our team itself we’ve come to realize there is a huge gap between picking a tool, framework, or library andactually building a complete application.

Not to mention, there are huge problems surrounding how to actually build an app as a team without stomping on each other.

There are sooooo many options and patterns on how to structure, build, and deploy applications beyond just picking a framework.

Few people seem to be talking about how to do all of that, which is just as big of a rabbit hole as picking a framework!

The corner-stones of Ampersand is the state, model, and view modules. There's no "core" module or anything. If you just want some basic view layer you could pull in just the view module for example.

As I mentioned before, Ampersand does not come with any "core" module. Which isn't really mentioned anywhere in the docs — that confused me for a while. So, we'll need to setup something of our own. First, let's lay out the things we need:

1. A way to map "code" to a "url". Ie. we need a router and some way to structure that code.
2. A way to keep track of global state. This might be a user's session for example. Things that doesn't really fit within a model.
3. A way to manage instantiated models. So that we can make sure we're not running around with duplicates.
4. Someway to manage the app chrome (navigation bars and what not — stuff that is not part of one special page).