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Here’s what I decided, I’m going to go get a JS book from Barnes & Noble, read it, try to write my own code, after a while, I’ll migrate to a framework where I actually know what everything does. Thanks for the replies guys

I would advise against this approach. There are enough wheels out there, you don’t need to invent one. Just like any framework you must know the programming language that is based on pretty well. Just like you can write application with CI even if you don’t know PHP very well you can do the same with a javascript library. If you want to know Javascript very well than that’s a good approach. But from my experience Javascript is a bigger monster than PHP and the browser compatibility issues aggravates the problem.

jQuery is used now by Google Code and it’s main developer works at Mozilla. I could only dream to get to a level where I can say: “Well let’s see how much better I can do at this”.

Javascript is becoming more and more advanced and will become a language that will bring server resources to the client side (think offline applications). The increasing role of Javascript requires dedication. If you’re not aiming at becoming a very good javascript programmer there’s no point in learning javascript the hard way (aka: building your own framework)

Well, I agree, but at my current rate, starting to use JS with jquery, I would only take it as far as the documentation outlines. Oh, by the way, I wasn’t talking about creating my own framework, I was just talking about writing my own functions, just to get a feel for it. You think you can build a good CI site w/o much PHP knowledge?

Javascript frameworks are different from php frameworks because the (main) intention of php frameworks is to make OOP easier using the MVC pattern and the intention of the javascript frameworks is to have cross-browser methods and write unobtrusive code.

So modifying the framework will not be not something you are going to do a lot, extending on the other hand is something you will do if you can’t find a plugin.

I’m using jQuery for sometime now but if i have to do something using only javascript other than common things i have to search how it has to be done. So you don’t have to be an advanced javascript programmer to get the best out of a framework.

Ok, point taken, I’ll try to use jquery for my next project, and see what happens from there. Thanks for your replies everyone.

If you have any questions i’m glad to answer them and their discussion group on google is very newbie friendly and they have an irc channel too.

jQuery + Ext(if needed)

I think is all you need. I suggest buying a book (there are 1 or 2 good ones on amazon) or reading as much as you can online, trying examples and the such.