Last updated : May 22, 2013
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Understand more
May 2013
Hold
Proceed with caution
Backbone.js is a great example of an abstraction pushed too far. While we initially liked the ease of wire-up, in practice it suffers from the same issues as all such databound frameworks from WebForms to client/server tools. We find that it blurs the framework and model too much, forcing either bad architectural decisions or elaborate framework hackery in order to preserve sanity.
Oct 2012
Hold
Proceed with caution
Jul 2011
Assess
Worth exploring with the goal of understanding how it will affect your enterprise.
Even though JavaScript increasingly plays a more important role in today’s world of software development, it is still troublesome to organize in a clean structure. Backbone.js is a library which provides an MVC (model view controller) framework for JavaScript heavy applications. It allows developers to write JavaScript code in a more manageable and testable way.
Published : Jul 30, 2011
