I'd be interested to hear from anyone who's used both Backbone and Angular.
I've been writing my first single-page app (yeah, yeah, behind the times) using Backbone, and at first it was really exciting and intuitive, but I'm starting to realize Backbone is a pretty, er, bare-bones lib. Everyone seemed to suggest Handlebars as a template lib, so I added that to my project, and RequireJS to manage those two libs and their dependencies, and the RequireJS text plugin to load templates from other files in the project, and now it all just seems like a mess. The promise of a framework with everything you need, right out of the box, is tempting.
Edit: Most of the alternatives (e.g. Ember, Angular, Knockout, Meteor, etc.) are already in my bookmarks. I'm looking for reports from people who actually used the things, not links.
I've been writing my first single-page app (yeah, yeah, behind the times) using Backbone, and at first it was really exciting and intuitive, but I'm starting to realize Backbone is a pretty, er, bare-bones lib. Everyone seemed to suggest Handlebars as a template lib, so I added that to my project, and RequireJS to manage those two libs and their dependencies, and the RequireJS text plugin to load templates from other files in the project, and now it all just seems like a mess. The promise of a framework with everything you need, right out of the box, is tempting.
Edit: Most of the alternatives (e.g. Ember, Angular, Knockout, Meteor, etc.) are already in my bookmarks. I'm looking for reports from people who actually used the things, not links.