I've been working with the Breeze/knockout combination for a while now and have been overall quite satisfied. Twitter Bootstrap was a suitable UI place holder while experimenting but time has come to focus on the UI (mobile web app) and I've run up against an issue that has me looking elsewhere (other than knockout, that is). The problem I am running into with knockout has to do with the inability/difficulty to integrate existing UI components/widgets.
The trouble is that most of these widgets/frameworks/libraries (like jquery mobile) manipulate the DOM in order to accomplish what they are doing. This conflicts with Knockout.
So I moved on to Angular (whose binding syntax I much prefer) and I started my quest again. Well... same problem. Although someone wrote an Angular/Jquery Mobile adapter, I would hate to rely on it staying current with new versions of jquery mobile. Furthermore, the more I worked with jquery mobile, the less I liked it. It seems to be geared more towards mobile web sites than web apps and I found myself wanting to replace it's navigation router and more. Interestingly, at the same time (only a couple of days ago), I noticed the Angular ToDo demo in the latest version of Breeze.
The Angular Breeze demo got me thinking I should try Breeze with Kendo UI, whose MVVM implementation I don't particularly care for, but whose UI is very polished. I didn't spend too much time on this since there is no official support, and not surprisingly, I ran into problems.
So, my question(s):
Will Breeze ever work with Kendo UI MVVM? If yes, are we talking days, weeks or months? If no, any ideas on how to solve the real problem which can be summed up like this:
toolsToRapidlyDevelopProfessionalWebApp = [Breeze, MVVM, UI]
Breeze: I know of no alternative that solves the problems described above.
MVVM: which implementation will work with Breeze and a solid UI library (mobile in my case)?
UI: which pro quality UI library will work with an MVVM implementation that also works with Breeze?
BTW, in my quest for answers, I ran into the following:
Yes, KendoUI support is on the roadmap for Breeze. As you saw on Kendo's feedback page from your link, our two companies are in contact and have a mutual interest in this.
Edit: Telerik reviews Breeze here and shows the initial integration code with KendoUI: https://gist.github.com/derickbailey/258716b0107f9067616a
Edit 2: Completed version of BreezeDataSource for KendoUI is now working: http://www.kendoui.com/blogs/teamblog/posts/13-02-21/breeze_js_and_the_kendo_ui_datasource.aspx