Exactly. I’ve seen 10,000 line single jquery files handed off to other teams who were asked to merge them into their 4,000 loc customized quasi consumer of the

Exactly. I’ve seen 10,000 line single jquery files handed off to other teams who were asked to merge them into their 4,000 loc customized quasi consumer of the 10,000 loc file. This was at a well respected and iconic tech company with very smart engineers. Even good people and teams can suck at architecture. I’ve taken those codebases and refactored them to be testable so I know it’s possible. But why not just use something sane like react to begin with, considering it’s 2018 now. At that point, backbone was only a year old.