6.1. Application Pages

One of the best ways to approach a new jQuery Mobile application is to think of it in terms of individual pages. Because it’s so easy to create individual pages in jQuery Mobile, it often makes sense to build out all of the pages with placeholder text that you can fill in with data later. In addition to getting you up and running quickly, it also provides the potential benefit of creating an interactive prototype that you can use for demonstrations or user testing. Need to get stakeholder buy-in for the new application? Want to do some feature validation with your users? No problem, just mock out your application pages in jQuery Mobile.

For jqmTweet, the application will have a main page (with the list of tweets), a detail page (for displaying the details of an individual tweet), a configuration page (for updating the Twitter user name and number of tweets), and an error page (for error dialogs).