Thank you, Bob and Bryan! I think I'll try making something small and quick for "offline" use and then decide on the best tool to move forward with. My research has brought up so many contenders besides Hobo with modifications: Meteor, Yeoman, Railway and TowerJS.
- Anand On Thursday, October 25, 2012 2:46:18 PM UTC+5:30, Anand wrote: > > Folks, > > I am new to Hobo and would appreciate your advise. I am exploring using > Hobo to build an application that would need to also work "offline". > Basically, it would be used by a cellphone user with an intermittent data > connection. Therefore, whenever there's an internet connection available, > it would sync with the server. We can assume that 90% of the time, an > Internet connection will be available, but 10% of the time there would be a > break in Internet availability for, say, a few hours. Is Hobo a good choice > for building something like this? I see that there's a Railscast on > building offline apps with Rails which involves a lot of javascript and > HTML5 based local storage, but it can be done with Rails. > > Would all that also work with Hobo? > > Some people have recommended Meteor as a framework for building apps that > support offline operation and immediate syncing whenever Internet is > available. Any thoughts on going that route v/s using Hobo? I do > understand that Hobo will be much faster for making a lot of the common > functionality. However, I'm not sure if for offline apps, it would still > work as a good choice. > > Thank you for your insights and advice, anyone who can share. > Regards, > > - Anand > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hobousers/-/MgL4l1ZwbYsJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en.
