Choosing the Right JavaScript Framework

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Post by elkelk » Thu, Aug 21, 2014, 3:35 PM UTC

Choosing the Right JavaScript Framework
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Re: Choosing the Right JavaScript Framework

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Post by obiefernandez » Thu, Aug 21, 2014, 3:37 PM UTC

It seems like Backbone is dominant, but after a couple months of using AngularJS on an everyday basis I'm ready to switch and never look back. Hands-down best framework I've ever worked with. The pleasure I get from it reminds me of the early days of Rails, when the leap in productivity was palpable.

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Post by prtkgpt » Thu, Aug 21, 2014, 3:55 PM UTC

AngularJS is awesome!

Re: Choosing the Right JavaScript Framework

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Post by prtkgpt » Thu, Aug 21, 2014, 3:55 PM UTC

obiefernandez wrote: post #2

It seems like Backbone is dominant, but after a couple months of using AngularJS on an everyday basis I'm ready to switch and never look back. Hands-down best framework I've ever worked with. The pleasure I get from it reminds me of the early days of Rails, when the leap in productivity was palpable.

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Post by desaideas » Thu, Aug 21, 2014, 3:55 PM UTC

With so many js frameworks it's great to get an experts evaluation of the differences.

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Post by andrewvc » Thu, Aug 21, 2014, 3:56 PM UTC

What, no React/Flux? How can this be a serious comparison without React?

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Post by mikeryan » Thu, Aug 21, 2014, 3:59 PM UTC

obiefernandez wrote: post #2

It seems like Backbone is dominant, but after a couple months of using AngularJS on an everyday basis I'm ready to switch and never look back. Hands-down best framework I've ever worked with. The pleasure I get from it reminds me of the early days of Rails, when the leap in productivity was palpable.

I've always used Backbone more as a collection of libraries and in that way its nice for lighter weight use cases and plays well with other JS code. I'm not sure if it has (or needs) enough structure to build the same sort of apps as you'd build with Angular or Ember and I've always kind of found these comparisons a bit unfair. Kind of like choosing between Sinatra and Rails.

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Post by carsongross » Thu, Aug 21, 2014, 3:59 PM UTC

But, but, but... what about the Un-JS Un-Framework, intercooler:

http://intercoolerjs.org/

Re: Choosing the Right JavaScript Framework

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Post by ld00d » Thu, Aug 21, 2014, 4:01 PM UTC

No Durandal? http://durandaljs.com/

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Post by bsaul » Thu, Aug 21, 2014, 4:03 PM UTC

Another framework i barely hear about and surprised me a bit recently is sencha/ExtJS. They're growing a lot in the enterprise sector, but they managed to keep pretty up-to-date relative to web/open sources projects such as angular.Eg they added two-way data binding in their latest version in a not-to-ugly way.

Anyone here got a real try on sencha (the full package, including sencha architect) recently ?