I’m just putting the final demo together for one of my sessions at SpringOne 2GX called “Does my DIV look big in this?“ This talk brings together a whole bunch of technologies that I’ve been experimenting with for a while that help keep your view tier DRYer, namely:
- Grails Resources (for shrinking your dependencies)
- Various Grails and non-Grails DRY view technologies (including bean-fields, navigation, validation and other jQuery related goodness)
- Less.css for keeping your CSS nice and DRY
- Twitter Bootstrap (for gridding and standardised layouts)
- Backbone.js for giving some rigor to my JavaScript views (and painless REST sync)
If any of those technologies are on your radar, make sure you come along! I’m really keen to hear your views on what has worked for you and how we can move towards more low friction Grails views.
We’ll be taking a noisy and loveless default UI:
[](http://blogs.bytecode.com.au/glen/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/seefooddiet_before.gif)
And giving it a solid makeover for markup, layout and behaviour:
[](http://blogs.bytecode.com.au/glen/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/seefooddiet_after.gif)
It's gonna be a blast! See you in Chicago!