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Literally this. It still does everything I need and not a thing more and is entirely grokable whilst being extendable. Amazing little piece of software.
by enahs-sf 10y ago
Literally this. It still does everything I need and not a thing more and is entirely grokable whilst being extendable. Amazing little piece of software.
- git-pull 10y agoAgreed here. Backbone is brilliant, and minimal. Check out the annotated source here: http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html
- 91bananas 10y agoI trip out every time I look at the source of it and Underscore. There's nothing there, it's all so simple, it's like the bare minimum amount of code that can be there to do the things it does.
- LunaSea 10y agoBackbone aka. Memory leaks as a service Which is the reason Marionette exists in the first place (well that and boilerplate code).
- 91bananas 10y agoIf you create a bunch of stuff then don't dereference/unlink/whatever you want to call it in JS-land it you're going to have a bunch of references to stuff laying around. I don't fault Backbone for that.