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FUD. I've had several developers over several teams pick up Backbone significantly faster than 1-2 months. I'd strongly recommend over generalising from persona

FUD. I've had several developers over several teams pick up Backbone significantly faster than 1-2 months. I'd strongly recommend over generalising from personal experience, and perhaps considering why Backbone has so many devs using, and contributing to, it. I've been writing MVC apps in JS and ECMA script in general (eg AS 3) for a good time now, and have used other MVCish frameworks before (Dojo, Flex etc). Backbone has a solid implementation of models, views and events. If you understand the fundamentals of Javascript (knowing event listener closures are references that'll prevent GC) and write modular code you can do great things with it without any "mess".

blablabla123 14y ago
From reading the other comments here I get the impression it very much depends whether someone has used JS MVC frameworks before. Having not tried any JS MVC framework before, I also have the problem of thinking backbone js doesn't seem to be so good as everybody is saying. Although I have to admit that I did not spend enough time yet. But from the examples (in particular the famous Todo example), I got the impression backbone js only works fine for apps with low complexity. But who am I to judge, having it not used yet seriously...
- krebby 14y ago
  In response to your last point: take a look at some of the real world examples that use Backbone (http://backbonejs.org/#examples http://backbonejs.org/#examples) as compared to builtwith.angularjs.org. Real, huge projects like Hulu, Soundcloud, Moviepilot, and USA Today are all using Backbone incredibly successfully. Backbone doesn't provide a lot of the "plumbing" that other frameworks like Angular, Knockout, Batman, Spine, et al have built-in, but it's got a lot more resources and community that work much better for doing only what you actually need.
- Zarel 14y ago
  As a counterpoint, the first JS MVC I tried to use was Backbone.js, and it was really easy for me to learn, much easier than most others that I've tried.

blablabla123 14y ago

From reading the other comments here I get the impression it very much depends whether someone has used JS MVC frameworks before. Having not tried any JS MVC framework before, I also have the problem of thinking backbone js doesn't seem to be so good as everybody is saying. Although I have to admit that I did not spend enough time yet. But from the examples (in particular the famous Todo example), I got the impression backbone js only works fine for apps with low complexity. But who am I to judge, having it not used yet seriously...

krebby 14y ago
In response to your last point: take a look at some of the real world examples that use Backbone (http://backbonejs.org/#examples http://backbonejs.org/#examples) as compared to builtwith.angularjs.org. Real, huge projects like Hulu, Soundcloud, Moviepilot, and USA Today are all using Backbone incredibly successfully. Backbone doesn't provide a lot of the "plumbing" that other frameworks like Angular, Knockout, Batman, Spine, et al have built-in, but it's got a lot more resources and community that work much better for doing only what you actually need.
Zarel 14y ago
As a counterpoint, the first JS MVC I tried to use was Backbone.js, and it was really easy for me to learn, much easier than most others that I've tried.