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First I'm hearing of Lo-Dash. How long has this been in the Backbone.org docs?
Appears there was a fair bit of tension in it's dev history. Eg: https://github.com/documentcloud/underscore/commit/4e4bc194c...
Another framework worth checking out if you're into JavaScript MVC is AngularJS ( http://angularjs.org ).
I'd be interested to hear from anyone who's used both Backbone and Angular. I've been writing my first single-page app (yeah, yeah, behind the times) using Backbone, and at first it was really exciting and intuitive, but I'm starting to realize Backbone is a pretty, er, bare-bones lib. Everyone seemed to suggest Handlebars as a template lib, so I added that to my project, and RequireJS to manage those two libs and th…
Then I tried AngularJS and I was blown away. "Yes!" I exclaimed "JS/HTML5 has truly come of age". It is a beautiful thing that saves shit tons of time. And as I have got deeper into it, I hardly write JS anymore, YOU CAN DO 95% OF PRESENTATION LOGIC IN THE HTML. You can modularise. You can ... test! Its amazing. IT WILL ENABLE YOU TO STRUCTURE REALLY REALLY BIG PROJECTS! I hear similar evangelism from the knockoutJS community, so I am keen to try that out too, although I am getting pretty proficient with AngularJS and I personally think its got more chance of survival given its googly backers, and its more likely that chrome will start supporting AngularJS features natively. So I am betting on longevity as well as functionality with NG.
Another framework worth checking out if you're into JavaScript MVC is AngularJS ( http://angularjs.org ).
I'd be interested to hear from anyone who's used both Backbone and Angular. I've been writing my first single-page app (yeah, yeah, behind the times) using Backbone, and at first it was really exciting and intuitive, but I'm starting to realize Backbone is a pretty, er, bare-bones lib. Everyone seemed to suggest Handlebars as a template lib, so I added that to my project, and RequireJS to manage those two libs and th…
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6548826/angular-js-vs-bac...
"Most importantly, Backbone events have two new methods: listenTo and stopListening... When you destroy Views with view.remove(), this will now be done automatically" Well that seems incredibly useful.
Another framework worth checking out if you're into JavaScript MVC is AngularJS ( http://angularjs.org ).
I'd be interested to hear from anyone who's used both Backbone and Angular. I've been writing my first single-page app (yeah, yeah, behind the times) using Backbone, and at first it was really exciting and intuitive, but I'm starting to realize Backbone is a pretty, er, bare-bones lib. Everyone seemed to suggest Handlebars as a template lib, so I added that to my project, and RequireJS to manage those two libs and th…
markme (in AngularJS) : http://markme.alwaysdata.net/
which is a clone bookmarly.com , done with backbone.
The source is here :
https://github.com/Mparaiso/silex-bookmarkly
AngularJS is great , it doesnt do everything so you still need to build your own stack, as for backbone ( jquery ,bootstrap, and even requirejs as it doesnt do AMD out of the box ... ). It comes with a lot of testing tools , make it easy to mock backends , DOM elements ...
It is the best frontend framework for LOB , period. It has builtin form support , filtering , validation , is easy to integrate with bootstrap , and extend , and produce sane code , unlike ExtJS for instance( SenchaTouch is however very good for mobile apps , it is blazing fast. ).
If you are doing some animation heavy stuff ,where you need total control over dom elements lifecycle , i would not recommand it, backbone is better for that , i still use backbone for data light apps.
"Most importantly, Backbone events have two new methods: listenTo and stopListening... When you destroy Views with view.remove(), this will now be done automatically" Well that seems incredibly useful.
Wait, so in previous versions, when you destroy a view, event listeners weren't destroyed? I haven't noticed any issues in my Backbone app but this seems like it could spiral into a memory issue.
Another framework worth checking out if you're into JavaScript MVC is AngularJS ( http://angularjs.org ).
I'd be interested to hear from anyone who's used both Backbone and Angular. I've been writing my first single-page app (yeah, yeah, behind the times) using Backbone, and at first it was really exciting and intuitive, but I'm starting to realize Backbone is a pretty, er, bare-bones lib. Everyone seemed to suggest Handlebars as a template lib, so I added that to my project, and RequireJS to manage those two libs and th…
AngularJS is great for simple apps but once I got beyond that I ended up fighting how to makes things work with the ng-* attributes often having to resort to $apply. Things that are simple with underscore templates and jQuery (the Backbone way) can become very frustrating in AngularJS.
AngularJS reminds me of ASP.NET controls with repeaters and coding through attributes. That works for a lot of people but I'm more comfortable with templates and jQuery.
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I'd be interested to hear from anyone who's used both Backbone and Angular. I've been writing my first single-page app (yeah, yeah, behind the times) using Backbone, and at first it was really exciting and intuitive, but I'm starting to realize Backbone is a pretty, er, bare-bones lib. Everyone seemed to suggest Handlebars as a template lib, so I added that to my project, and RequireJS to manage those two libs and th…
Exactly the question I had yesterday. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6548826/angular-js-vs-bac...
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I'd be interested to hear from anyone who's used both Backbone and Angular. I've been writing my first single-page app (yeah, yeah, behind the times) using Backbone, and at first it was really exciting and intuitive, but I'm starting to realize Backbone is a pretty, er, bare-bones lib. Everyone seemed to suggest Handlebars as a template lib, so I added that to my project, and RequireJS to manage those two libs and th…
I write and use alot of software. Normally number crunching on servers. However, I recently started seriously learning javascript. I had avoided HTML/javascript for years as they were horrible systems to develop in compared to every other type of software system in existence. However, with HTML 5 + cloud computing platforms I thought these systems are probably mature enough to start using. Anyway, so I learnt javascr…
I guess I'm a purist.
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I write and use alot of software. Normally number crunching on servers. However, I recently started seriously learning javascript. I had avoided HTML/javascript for years as they were horrible systems to develop in compared to every other type of software system in existence. However, with HTML 5 + cloud computing platforms I thought these systems are probably mature enough to start using. Anyway, so I learnt javascr…
Ugh, but this is just terrible: I guess I'm a purist.