The last few commits appear more about cleaning up some of the documentation. I guess on Jeremy Ashkenas twitter feed he called Backbone "finished" in terms of

The last few commits appear more about cleaning up some of the documentation. I guess on Jeremy Ashkenas twitter feed he called Backbone "finished" in terms of API and feature set after the 1.0 version. When you look at the contributions graph, its practically non-existent: https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/graphs/contributors https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/graphs/contributors Add in the Google trends graph compared to Angular and React: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=backbone%20js,angular%20js,react%20js https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=backbone%20js,angula... Then when you look at the other libraries in the ecosystem, its like a ghost town. backbone.forms - Open Issues: 172, Issues closed in 2016: 14, Last Release: Jan 21, 2016 backbone.localstorage - Open Issues: 45, Issues closed in 2016: 1, Last Release: Jan 22 2015 backbone.paginator - Open Issues: 20, Issues closed in 2016: 7+, Last Release: Feb 3 2016 backbone.validation -Open Issues: 79, Issues closed in 2016: 1, Last Release: May 8 2015 So not only is interest waning, the creator has called the library "finished" with not much more in terms of features coming and the ecosystem surrounding Backbone has all but dried up. I would be hard pressed to say it still has a bright future.