I enjoyed working with backbone. It was a breath of fresh air back in the day. I've actually ported it to C++ and Java (implementing an Event emitter for both l

I enjoyed working with backbone. It was a breath of fresh air back in the day. I've actually ported it to C++ and Java (implementing an Event emitter for both languages). And I respect Jeremy, also the author of coffee script, the most expressive language which I also enjoyed working with. Scaling such a lib for the entire universe and maintaining it is probably quite complicated without strong financial backing, but maybe not all projects are supposed to be scaled. I still like hacking together quick one-page apps with Backbone, it's too easy to do, although I have to admit that React is much more powerful - in theory. For many, though, Backbone can still be a very good choice.