I think that comparing Backbone to such feature rich frameworks like Angular or Ember doesn't make much sense — you certainly would want to choose some view tec

I think that comparing Backbone to such feature rich frameworks like Angular or Ember doesn't make much sense — you certainly would want to choose some view technology (maybe even with data bindings) on top of Backbone.View and so on. Actually I like how Angular.js extends HTML further with high-level declarative constructs so I built something like this but for Backbone — Backbone.ViewDSL http://andreypopp.github.io/backbone.viewdsl/ http://andreypopp.github.io/backbone.viewdsl/ — it also allows you to add directives as new HTML elements and attributes but otherwise plays well with other libraries, that means it is not yet another "closed" ecosystem but just a simple plugin for Backbone. You can also take a look to an implementation of TodoMVC with Backbone.ViewDSL in just 113 lines of code — https://github.com/andreypopp/todomvc/blob/gh-pages/labs/architecture-examples/backbone.viewdsl/js/app.coffee https://github.com/andreypopp/todomvc/blob/gh-pages/labs/arc...