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I haven't found a compelling reason to move away from Backbone yet. It's not perfect, but it does the essentials and it is very stable and well understood. Mig

by scandox 10y ago

I haven't found a compelling reason to move away from Backbone yet. It's not perfect, but it does the essentials and it is very stable and well understood. Might be the relatively reasonable size of the projects I have going. But it works well for a lot of stuff. I think a lot of the problem comes from fear of projects becoming obsolete. Ultimately JS/CSS/HTML isn't going to fundamentally transform in short order.

acemarke 10y ago
Backbone is definitely stable and solid, and there's a bunch of good addons in the ecosystem that build on it (particularly Marionette for lifecycle handling and more advanced views, Ampersand for a better Model/State class, and Epoxy for data binding). That said, having built a Backbone app, and then gotten into React+Redux, I'm all in on React and Redux as a better way to build apps. It's a much more consistent mental model, and makes tracing data flow much easier.