Backbone is a famously simple framework that fits into a
single JavaScript file. Backbone has been around for a while; developed
by Jeremy Ashkenas from CoffeeScript and Underscore fame. Backbone is
especially popular with teams looking for a simple structure for their
small web applications without bringing in a large framework like
Angular or Ember.
Backbone provides a full MVC framework along with routing. The Models allow for key-value binding and events for handling data changes. Models (and Collections) can connect to RESTful APIs. The Views have declarative event handling, and the Router does an excellent job of handling your URL and state management. Everything you need to build a Single Page Application without offering too much and without unnecessary complexity.
When to use Backbone? Backbone is my GOTO framework for simple web applications.
React is this year’s favorite JavaScript project! Everyone seems to be talking about ReactJS. Every conference I have been to in the last year had at least a couple of talks on React and other libraries in the same family (Flux, Redux) React is open-source and developed mostly by Facebook with contributions from other major tech companies. React describes itself as a JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
React is mostly the V in MVC. Itfocuses entirely on that piece of MVC and disregards the architecture of the rest of your application. It provides a component layer that makes it easier to make UI elements and combine them together. It abstracts the DOM away so that it optimizes rendering and allows you to render React from node.js. Further, it implements a one-way reactive data flow that makes it easier to understand and use than other frameworks.
Being the V in MVC, several projects combine React with the likes of Angular or Ember.
When to use React? When you want a powerful View layer but don’t need an elaborate framework for the rest of your application or when you want a View layer to go with your Angular, Backbone, or Ember application. When you are trying to build an isomorphic web framework.
jQuery is the library that needs no introduction. It is single-handedly responsible for making cross-browser sites a reality and for bringing the web to where it is today. Web Standards have been adopted and genuinely respected by most major browser manufacturers and jQuery is one of the reasons why. The mission of jQuery Foundation is “to improve the open web, making it accessible for everyone, through the development and support of open source software, and collaboration with the development community.”
jQuery is the most used JavaScript library in the world, and no app should ever go without it unless you dislike programmer productivity. It makes DOM traversal, event handling, animation, AJAX so much simpler and easier across all browsers.
Backbone provides a full MVC framework along with routing. The Models allow for key-value binding and events for handling data changes. Models (and Collections) can connect to RESTful APIs. The Views have declarative event handling, and the Router does an excellent job of handling your URL and state management. Everything you need to build a Single Page Application without offering too much and without unnecessary complexity.
When to use Backbone? Backbone is my GOTO framework for simple web applications.
React is this year’s favorite JavaScript project! Everyone seems to be talking about ReactJS. Every conference I have been to in the last year had at least a couple of talks on React and other libraries in the same family (Flux, Redux) React is open-source and developed mostly by Facebook with contributions from other major tech companies. React describes itself as a JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
React is mostly the V in MVC. Itfocuses entirely on that piece of MVC and disregards the architecture of the rest of your application. It provides a component layer that makes it easier to make UI elements and combine them together. It abstracts the DOM away so that it optimizes rendering and allows you to render React from node.js. Further, it implements a one-way reactive data flow that makes it easier to understand and use than other frameworks.
Being the V in MVC, several projects combine React with the likes of Angular or Ember.
When to use React? When you want a powerful View layer but don’t need an elaborate framework for the rest of your application or when you want a View layer to go with your Angular, Backbone, or Ember application. When you are trying to build an isomorphic web framework.
jQuery is the library that needs no introduction. It is single-handedly responsible for making cross-browser sites a reality and for bringing the web to where it is today. Web Standards have been adopted and genuinely respected by most major browser manufacturers and jQuery is one of the reasons why. The mission of jQuery Foundation is “to improve the open web, making it accessible for everyone, through the development and support of open source software, and collaboration with the development community.”
jQuery is the most used JavaScript library in the world, and no app should ever go without it unless you dislike programmer productivity. It makes DOM traversal, event handling, animation, AJAX so much simpler and easier across all browsers.
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