Exactly! Well said, "any jackass can plop in a data table and move on." The problem with that approach is that it's very deceptively easy. The data table morphs into a screen, then into an app, and before long you've got a big fat steaming pile of JS that is a 5mb download.
And then you get some really weird bugs like "If these two components are layed out inside an hbox, every once in a while you get a "Layout Run Failed" exception". Not that that's happened to me or anything :)
I'm actually in the middle of an exploratory re-write to use straight Backbone. I'm hopping to wrap up widgets like DataTable, Select2 and such into Backbone views and use them.
It's early days on it, but am hopeful that I'll arrive at something useful.
And then you get some really weird bugs like "If these two components are layed out inside an hbox, every once in a while you get a "Layout Run Failed" exception". Not that that's happened to me or anything :)
I'm actually in the middle of an exploratory re-write to use straight Backbone. I'm hopping to wrap up widgets like DataTable, Select2 and such into Backbone views and use them.
It's early days on it, but am hopeful that I'll arrive at something useful.