I am currently looking at implementing YUI 3.5 pr1 (and then the final version when released) in a fairly large application.
The backend is built with PHP and MySQL using a MVC structure with a front controller pattern. By it self, the server can process URLs (http://mysite.com/module/submodule/option) etc and return a fully rendered page.
I would like to implement the App Framework in YUI across the whole application so that javascript-enabled browser will effectively have something like a 1-page app with history management avaliable.
I am currently looking at the app framework docs on the staging site. Unfortunately, the docs aren't complete (in particular sections on routing coordination with server and progressively enhanced apps).
In any case, if a user visits http://mysite.com/modules/submodule/option with an HTML4 browser (all versions of IE), and he has javascript enabled, he would need to be redirected to http://mysite.com/#/modules/submodule/option.
Is this something that's built into the App Framework? I would prefer to utilise a solution that does not require the whole page to be rendered out and then redirected to the hashtaged URL and then rerendered again.
Finally, I have watched the intro video on the App Framework and it mentioned that they are using the Handlebars template engine. I am using Twig as my template engine on the server side. Is it possible to use an alternative template engine with the app framework? In particular the twig js engine.