backbone js or knockout js as a web framework with jquery mobile

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Published on 2012-11-05T04:57:41Z Indexed on 2012/11/05 4:59 UTC
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without trying to cause a mass discussion I would like some advice from the fellow users of stack overflow.

I am about to start building a mobile website that gets it data from JSON that comes from a PHP rest api.

I have looked into different mobile frameworks and feel that JQM will work best for us as we have the knowledge of jQuery even though a little large.

Currently at work however we are using jQuery for all our sites and realise that now we are building a mobile website I need to think about javascript frameworks to move us onto a more MV* approach, which I understand the benefits of and will bring much needed structure to this mobile site and future web applications we may bring.

I have made a comparision table where I have managed to bring the selection down to 2 - backbone and knockout.

I have been looking around the web and it seems that there is more support for backbone in general and maybe even more support for backbone with JQM.

http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/pages/backbone-require.html

One thing I have noticed however is that backbone doesnt support view bindings (declarative approach) whereas knockout does - is this a massive bonus?

one of the main reasons for using a mv* for us is to get more structure - so I would like to use the library that will intergrate best with jQuery and especially jQuery mobile. neither of them seem to have that similar syntax...

Thanks

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