Agreed, underscore and backbone.js are amazing. JQuery is awesome at dom manipulation, backbone is great at structuring reusable js components, and underscore p

Agreed, underscore and backbone.js are amazing. JQuery is awesome at dom manipulation, backbone is great at structuring reusable js components, and underscore provides the prototype like helpers for manipulating collections (underscore.strings is also an essential library). These 3 tools have me loving js development to the same degree when I first started using prototype (before the project stagnated and died).