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Just curious - if the documentation and tutorials were so lacking, what made you choose Backbone in the first place? I ask as I'm looking for a new JS library
by brown9-2 15y ago
Just curious - if the documentation and tutorials were so lacking, what made you choose Backbone in the first place?
I ask as I'm looking for a new JS library for a project to build the client-side interaction, and I have no idea what is different than backbone from the rest, just that a lot of folks here are interested in using it.
- devmach 15y agoThere was two alternative for me : backbone and knockout. They are both good frameworks ( and serves different goals ). * With backbone's models and collections, i can organize my application structure better. It's not easy but result is a clean code. * Backbone's Router is no-brainer. * Syc allow me to use RESTful JSON requests. Even i'm not using it, it's good to have such an option. * Data-binding is a plain pain. You have to write your own code but there is always a library that you can use (eg. https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.modelbinding https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.modelbinding ). * I can always read the source code and thanks the comments i can understand most of it. My complain about good and advanced tutorials not because of the laziness, it was because saving time.