It is a known fact that front-end development has been pushing the boundaries of what is to be considered the best-practice.
In fact completely opposites views on central topics emerged, and for each there’s at least a reference implementation.
Let’s make it clear: there’s no clear winner here. And this is perfectly ok. Rarely choice is an issue.
As a front-end developer myself, and a Titanium™ SDK user more specifically, I want to have that freedom-of-choice that is fostering innovation in the web also when I’m developing cross-platform native apps.
Fact is, I have it already!
This project, react-titanium, was born exactly to prove that. And also because I’m not too fond of Alloy, but please do not spread the word too much on this ;)
React is a perfect candidate to show the power of Titanium™ SDK APIs, mostly because it is not a web framework, but more a general approach UI framework.
Angular and Ember, for instance, are very web-oriented and therefore would pose too many issues on porting them to Titanium™.
React would also let me escape the MVC pattern, which is not necessarily the right choice.
Anyway you can have two-way data bindings in Alloy using David Bankier’s nano.
Awesome! What about giving it a try and install it?