The promise of a framework with everything you need, right out of the box, is tempting. There is always the compromise, however, in that frameworks that have "

The promise of a framework with everything you need, right out of the box, is tempting. There is always the compromise, however, in that frameworks that have "everything" tend to force you to abide by their view of the world. AngularJS, for instance, offers many arguable advantages for some tasks, but can turn into an enormous impediment whenever you want to go outside of the painted lines. Of course opinions differ, but I prefer that relative simplicity of backbone -- it is more convention than framework, really -- because it scales to full-products with less friction.