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Most obvious telltale that todo is too simplistic is that the jquery version is shorter than many of the framework versions.

• lucisferre 14y ago
  It's also the most obvious telltale that most of these frameworks are completely unnecessary for many front-end scenarios. I find a good portion of the front-end work I do does not benefit even from the more lightweight ones like Backbone in the least.
  • mofle 14y ago
    I used to feel like that too, but Backbone is really lightweight and unopinionated. Check out this step-by-step guide on how to convert a jQuery app to Backbone: https://github.com/kjbekkelund/writings/blob/master/published/understanding-backbone.md/ https://github.com/kjbekkelund/writings/blob/master/publishe...
    • lucisferre 14y ago
      I've used Backbone extensively before. It was actually the other way around where I didn't need 90% of what backbone did for what I was doing and just switched back to jQuery. For situations where I actually do want some kind of client-to-server data-binding, I generally prefer it to provide two-way view<->model binding so I've been leaning towards Angular (as heavy as it is) and Knockout.