I have now officially started the development for my new web application. I will not go into details right now, since everything is to be made, and a lot of very important decisions are to be made.

What I can say is that it will be a Web Application running on Rails. I’m still struggling on whether to use PostgresSQL, MySQL or MongoDB.

One of the big design decision was the choice of the client-side framework. I know I wanted a rich and fast user experience and to use Javascript heavily. So, I decided to go with Backbone. And I have no experience with it apart from the Peepcode screencasts.

I have no idea how to apply it to my application domain. It will be hard, but worth it.

What is Backbone?

Backbone is a framework to create data-driven application in Javascript.

As much as I love CoffeeScript, I will not use it to learn Backbone.

I will use Jasmine for testing.

Why Backbone and not Knockout or any other javascript framework?

From what I heard, Backbone is hard to learn, but from those who use it, it’s totally worth a try. And I heard so much great things from a lot of different developers. They couldn’t be all wrong.

So let’s get coding. Expect another blog post later for the first impressions.