js frameworks - angular vs backbone

JAVASCRIPT FRAMEWORKS

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Initially Released on 2009 Current stable release

1.4.7 ~37kb total (gzip / minified)

Created by Jeremy Ashkenas Initially Released on October

2010, Current stable release 1.2.3 ~6.5kb total (gzip / minified)

ANGULAR JS VS BACKBONE JS

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DEPENDENCIES

NO DEPENDENCIES

DATA BINDING

Process that establishes a connection between the application UI (User Interface) and business logic

Data-binding is fully supported Models use standard JSON properties (e.g. car.color =

"red";) Provides Option for Creating custom bindings

Data-binding is not supported by default.

There are plugins available to support Data-binding

Used for routing your applications URL's when using hash tags(#)

Maps an url to a Javascript function

ROUTERS

Router is very simple

Router is similar to Backbone’s

VIEWS

How the stuffs are displayed in the screen

Simple and straight forward. Easy for developer with JQuery and DOM skills Simply extend Backbone.View, grab an element and

put stuff in it No Official Templating, but easy to add using

Uses HTML as templating language Automatically pulls in HTML templates via AJAX

when needed

TESTING

Support for testing application

No default test solution; Test it your ownCan use following third party solutions

Fantastic test support. Designed from the beginning to be easy to test.Karma developed by Angular JS team is popular test runner

DATA

How do I get data from the sever?

Uses JQuery’s $.ajax to power Backbone. Very Easy to understand Default behavior is relatively easy to override

No JQuery Can do with Angular’ s $http but much better using

$resource Very good API

Requires the ngResource module to be installed.

How easy to get help?COMMUNITY /DOCUMENTATION

THIRD PARTY INTEGRATION How easy to integrate another JS library?

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

FINAL CHOICE