jasongullickson

We're working on moving our site from a straight-up ROR app to hypermedia API on the back-end (still running on Rails) and Javascript/HTML5 on the front.

I've used everything from raw Javascript to jQuery to Dojo to build client-side components against a REST API before, and I'm comfortable with going that direction, but I'm asking the community here if something has come along that supersedes these tools for this sort of application?

In particular we want to develop a modular set of controls that can operate in a stand-alone fashion, composed only of client-side code but can also be combined and hosted in existing Rails-served pages as well as static HTML.

Thoughts?

When AWS or other issues take Heroku down, why do they display broken sites instead of something less hideous, like the old-fashioned "Technical Difficulties" slide from television's days of yore (or better yet, a static page you provide)?