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Toolkits / Frameworks to develop cross platform app AND web frontend


I did quite a bit of research today without comming to a satisfactory conclusion. I need/want to build a service, that has both:

I found a lot of frameworks, that allow cross platform mobile apps (stack overflow helped a lot), however I couldn't find any that also promotes extensive code reuse with a web frontend.

At the moment I'm favorizing the following solution: Split the web backend into a REST framework accessed by both the web frontend and the apps (developed with Phonegap to allow reuse of HTML5 / JS surface code where possible).

Since the project-team is rather small, code duplication should be avoided as much as possible.

Is there another solution/framework (I've probably overlooked), that would cater to my requirements more adequately than my intended solution?


Solution

  • The Javascript frameworks you can use for your web frontend and that can help you for cross platform apps are

    1. Angular JS - Nice databinding features, dependency injection and MVC framework
    2. ChocolateChipUI - Theming based css to look like native iOS / Android / WP8

    There are other couple of options you can give a shot. Ionic framework