I suggest you try it out, I think your lines of code will greatly decrease. The biggest reason I prefer to program in Angular over Backbone is that I simply don

I suggest you try it out, I think your lines of code will greatly decrease. The biggest reason I prefer to program in Angular over Backbone is that I simply don't have to write rendering logic code because of data-binding. There's no "render" function, no jQuery DOM manipulation for common tasks, because all rendering behavior is declared in the HTML. Unless you're doing something non-trivial, in which case you should write a custom directive. (For those unfamiliar with Angular, a directive is a declaration of a new HTML tag or attribute with custom behavior which can be reused throughout your app) I've got to admit that I've never worked on a substantial Backbone app, but many of the issues I see people having with Backbone (regarding rendering item and list views, programmatically binding events, etc..) are simply non-existent in Angular.