Question

I plan to build a facebook instant messenger clone, and look for a jquery interface framework
what I aim to so is:

http://www.arrowchat.com/demo.branded/

Now the idea is to have a clean user interface library to handle the dialogs and other stuff..
I already looked at:

• ember to complicated pre-mature for now
• backbone but does not support ui stuff
• jquery-ui distaste on this one not sure why, its to bloated for starters
• http://www.jeasyui.com/demo/index.php seems nice but not very tied to backbone.js – this is perfect but need lib thats more dedicated to backbone.js

Are there any other jquery library’s to render user interfaces perhaps specific to backbone.js to get a decent layout up and running on clean code? thx!

Answer 1

Have a look at either Bootstrap or Foundation Zurb.

They both give you a responsive scaffolding with common UI elements. If you want more JS plugins then Bootstrap would be the one.