krebby

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by krebby 14y ago
Two-way binding is a neat trick, but I hate that it clutters my markup, and almost always I need to augment it in some way. Backbone's declarative events hash is universally a better way to go for that.
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by krebby 14y ago
Mostly for the gluing and custom node editing, but also I really like keeping my rabl files (presentation) outside of my models
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by krebby 14y ago
What does Knockout, Angular, et al give you that Backbone doesn't? It seems like most of the anti-Backbone comments are about it being unable to "scale", which is funny considering Hulu, Trello, SoundCloud and about a hundred other very lar
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by krebby 14y ago
I'd also recommend looking into Chaplin for stronger routing / app design. It's got a great CollectionView, which is one of the most common use cases for Backbone (also seems to solve a lot of the gripes with plain Backbone
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by krebby 14y ago
What don't you like about Backbone? I never hear anything constructive or even a solidly coherent argument from its detractors
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by krebby 14y ago
Huge +1 on rails-api. When used in combination with rabl, it's the most formidable Backend solution there is.
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by krebby 14y ago
No. Just no. Too many carrets, visual clutter, and form over function.
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by krebby 14y ago
It'd be great if the animation worked with CSS3 in addition to or instead of canvas. I'd love to use some of this on my site without requiring a whole embed.
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by krebby 14y ago
Love the execution. Would be great if it could have history snapshots in a git-style. I'm looking to replace my github-hosted markdown docs (fairly numerable # of files), and this looks awesome, just needs to feel more solid. would love to
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by 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 ) as compared to builtwith.angularjs.org. Real, huge projects like Hulu, Soundcloud, Moviepilot, and USA Toda