I've only done a little bit of Angular, but as is widely reported, the docs were a huge turnoff. The learning curve to build anything is pretty steep, which is

I've only done a little bit of Angular, but as is widely reported, the docs were a huge turnoff. The learning curve to build anything is pretty steep, which is where really solid docs would be crucial. I've been living in Backbone land for a few months now, on projects without Marionette, and having looked closely into the Marionette way of doing things, I think it's pretty much essential to writing maintainable code. I'm in the process of trying to convert chunks of the app to Marionette, little by little, and also running a simple home-cooked dependency injection scheme, which I may blog about once the kinks are all worked out. For those who've been burnt by Backbone in the past, I really suggest giving Marionette a shot. It's not perfect, but it standardizes a very clean, very understandable methodology for building Backbone apps.