Show HN: I built this in 5 minutes, and this is why Ratchet is awesome

Show HN: I built this in 5 minutes, and this is why Ratchet is awesome(github.com)

6 points by zafriedman 13 years ago | 13 comments

infinii 13 years ago |

I give up. I failed to find the awesomeness. I see a login form (view). Ratchet is an MVC framework, your page does nothing. :(

zafriedman 13 years ago | |

The awesomeness in my opinion is that a) this took me literally five minutes which means that I had to write absolutely none of my own CSS classes for mobile prototyping, the wonderful guys who developed Ratchet did that for me already! Also, Ratchet is not an MVC framework, it's a front-end iPhone targeted mobile prototyping framework. It allows you to prototype a mobile UI with HTML/CSS/JS faster than prototyping in native Objective-C. At first glance, I honestly think these guys are being humble by calling it a prototyping framework. I could see myself using this for mobile web versions of my apps, although that does presuppose that everything "works" pretty closely to the level one would expect it to reading the docs on their homepage. Check out the link I posted in another comment, you might be confusing Ratchet with something else.

adrianpike 13 years ago | | |

Interesting, so how is it different from something like jQuery mobile?

zafriedman 13 years ago |

UPDATE: This was probably really stupid of me to do right now, but I've been wanting to change my GitHub name for awhile... and just did... so if anyone would like to checkout the repo you can find it now at https://github.com/kulte/ratchet-signup

junto 13 years ago |

You forgot the sign up button! :-)

It has a form (missing a submit button) and then an "OR, sign up with Facebook".

railsjedi 13 years ago |

Looks great, is there a hosted link somewhere for people to play with without having to download?

zafriedman 13 years ago | |

If what you mean is there a CDN for the Ratchet javascript, I don't think so. If you go to the website http://maker.github.com/ratchet/ there is a download link, but my repo just augments what you get in the download folder... like I said, 5 minutes :)

EDIT: I see what you mean now, no I didn't put up a hosted link since I just developed the one screen during a 5 min break. That's a decent idea though, maybe I'll make a full demo application (maybe I'll make it a Todo list, no one has ever used that for a demo app before) and put it up on Heroku.

fs10 13 years ago | |

Posted a copy at http://clay.cc/w53g2/

programminggeek 13 years ago |

Hey, that's great, but you could already do rapid app prototyping all the way to full app development with Kendo Mobile. Paired with PhoneGap it's a highly productive way to build an app.

zafriedman 13 years ago | |

Thanks for mentioning Kendo, hadn't heard of it, just checked it out though... kinda pricey :) I think it's pretty awesome that someone developed a free, open-source mobile UI prototyping framework.

malandrew 13 years ago | |

Can you give me some examples of apps built with Kendo Mobile so I can see how it actually performs?

programminggeek 13 years ago | | |

I built the ReMeme app for iOS and Android using Kendo Mobile.