Angular or Backbone: what are startups using?

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Post by colevscode » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 5:21 PM UTC

Angular or Backbone: what are startups using?
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Re: Angular or Backbone: what are startups using?

#2

Post by psgibbs » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 5:43 PM UTC

I wouldn't draw a strong conclusion about 'larger' startups using Backbone instead of Angular based on this data.

There is probably some high correlation between a startup's size and age... Older startups are likely to be larger, and are likely to have started their stack using the popular framework of the time (Backbone). Newer startups will be smaller, and were founded at a time when new frameworks (e.g. Angular) are much more mature.

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Re: Angular or Backbone: what are startups using?

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Post by colevscode » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 5:48 PM UTC

psgibbs wrote: post #2

I wouldn't draw a strong conclusion about 'larger' startups using Backbone instead of Angular based on this data. There is probably some high correlation between a startup's size and age... Older startups are likely to be larger, and are likely to have started their stack using the popular framework of the time (Backbone). Newer startups will be smaller, and were founded at a time when new frameworks (e.g. Angular) a…

There didn't appear to be a clear relationship between startup size and age in the responses. Many brand new startups had 3 or 4 developers, and several older startups were plugging away with just 2 devs.

You may be right, however, that it's just too early to get an apples/apples comparison between Backbone and Angular.

Re: Angular or Backbone: what are startups using?

#4

Post by javascriptgod » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 5:57 PM UTC

Pop culture at it's finest.

Re: Angular or Backbone: what are startups using?

#5

Post by jbail » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 6:01 PM UTC

javascriptgod wrote: post #4

Pop culture at it's finest.

Do enlighten us, won't you?

Re: Angular or Backbone: what are startups using?

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Post by wnevets » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 6:06 PM UTC

jbail wrote: post #5

javascriptgod wrote: post #4

Pop culture at it's finest.

Do enlighten us, won't you?

he is a javascript god after all.

Re: Angular or Backbone: what are startups using?

#7

Post by grinich » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 6:07 PM UTC

javascriptgod wrote: post #4

Pop culture at it's finest.

Solving problems is part of writing software.

Re: Angular or Backbone: what are startups using?

#8

Post by bigdubs » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 6:14 PM UTC

grinich wrote: post #7

javascriptgod wrote: post #4

Pop culture at it's finest.

Solving problems is part of writing software.

Which is only partly true.

Better way of putting this; why don't startups write their web apps in x86 assembly?

Because not having problems in the first place is the sign of a 'good' programmer.

Re: Angular or Backbone: what are startups using?

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Post by davidw » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 6:14 PM UTC

On a recent project I used pjax, because it was way simpler to figure out what the heck was going on, and it did not have a bunch of extra stuff that was difficult.

Angular seemed very nice - until I tried to do something that it did not foresee and... wow... things get complicated really fast when you do that.

Re: Angular or Backbone: what are startups using?

#10

Post by ismyrnow » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 6:15 PM UTC

The sample size ("over 30") is really too small to draw many conclusions. Then again, it's a larger sample size than the typical ranting blogger (sample size of 1) who likes/dislikes a given stack.