Angular vs Backbone

So far in our series on front-end JavaScript frameworks we have looked at ReactJS and EmberJS. In this final article we’ll take a look at Backbone. We’ll examine how it compares to AngularJS on both an implementation and an ideological level, and provide some observations on how it compares in various problem domains in web application development.

Backbone’s Background

Backbone.js is a lightweight JavaScript framework created in 2010 by Jeremy Ashkenas. It has only one dependency – Underscore.js – which greatly reduces the time required to load and use the framework....

 

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