Is OnsenUI a new hope for Ember on Mobile?

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I have spent days looking into mobile HTML UI frameworks. There are several options for Angular, but I want to stay with Ember. Here are the options I see :

  1. use ionic.js and ionic.css and not the angular files. Then I would have to build my own ember components to work like the existing Angular ones
  2. Ratchet, but is a bit basic and assumes no framework
  3. Bootstrap or Zurb Foundation for Apps. Not very mobile like, performance not mobile optimised?
  4. OnsenUI - an interesting new option especially since they removed the dependence on Angular. Its basically WebComponents wrapping TopCoat, a very lean and fast mobile framework.

I’m thinking that Onsen would “just work” with Ember eg. see http://onsen.io/guide/overview.html#UsingOnsenUIwithjQueryorwithanyJSframeworks but I would like some confirmation from people more familiar with these things.

Any comments ?

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The plot thickens…

“Currently, Onsen UI is actually not custom elements but just Angular.js directives. We are considering Polymer or x-tags or other solution, but this plan is still in the air.” https://github.com/OnsenUI/OnsenUI/issues/131

Thats why the “plain javascript” example linked to above still requires angular.js

Would it work for angular to just provide directive-based “components” and ember to do everything else? What about angular events meeting ember? Would that be building a Frankinstein?

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OnsenUI 2.0 is framework agnostic.

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OnsenUI 2.0.0-beta.9 JS components and material css works with emberjs.

For details please refer the below github issue. https://github.com/frankdiox/OnsenUI-Material-Tabbar/issues/1

The screenshot of it is below.

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