AngularJS VS Backbone.js

Compare AngularJS vs Backbone.js and see what are their differences.

AngularJS

AngularJS - HTML enhanced for web apps! (by angular)

Backbone.js

Give your JS App some Backbone with Models, Views, Collections, and Events (by jashkenas)
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AngularJS Backbone.js
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59,496 28,084
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4.2 7.8
about 2 years ago about 2 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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AngularJS

Posts with mentions or reviews of AngularJS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-06.
  • Does anyone know the date each version of AngularJS was deprecated or where I can find that information? I queried ChatGPT but was hoping for confirmation if it was correct?
    1 project | /r/angularjs | 28 Jul 2023
    As an AI language model, my responses are generated based on a mixture of licensed data, data created by human trainers, and publicly available data. I do not have direct access to my training data or know where it came from. However, I was trained on a mixture of licensed data, data created by human trainers, and publicly available data.Regarding your request for source citations, I don't have direct access to external sources such as official documentation or websites. However, I can share that the information about the deprecation and end-of-life dates for each version of AngularJS can be found in the AngularJS repository on GitHub and in the official AngularJS blog and announcements.To find the specific dates of deprecation and end-of-life for each version of AngularJS, you can visit the AngularJS repository on GitHub (https://github.com/angular/angular.js) and check the commit history, release notes, or the project's issue tracker. Additionally, you can explore the official AngularJS blog (https://blog.angularjs.org/) for announcements and updates related to the deprecation and end-of-life process.Please keep in mind that the information I provided in my previous response was accurate up to September 2021, and there might have been updates or changes beyond that date. Always refer to the official sources and documentation for the most up-to-date information.
  • $routeProvider: templateUrl requests with X-Requested-With header
    1 project | /r/codehunter | 3 Jul 2023
    Update: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/1004 - discussion where header was removed.
  • "I don't like Microsoft's programming languages, but TypeScript..."
    5 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 6 Apr 2023
  • People like flutter more than react native. So why are there so few jobs?
    10 projects | /r/FlutterDev | 2 Dec 2022
    AngularJS (UI framework built in JavaScript): open (last commit: Apr 12 2022), unsupported Angular 2 to 12 (UI framework built in TypeScript): open, unsupported Angular 13 to 15 (UI framework built in TypeScript): open, supported until May 4 2023, Nov 11 2023 and May 18 2024 AngularDart (UI framework build in Dart): open (last commit: Oct 7 2021?, Today?), supported by community?, they say no Flutter 1: open (last commit: Mar 30 2022), unsupported Flutter 2: open (last commit: Apr 18 2022?), couldn't find if still supported, I assume unsupported Flutter 3: open (last commit: Today), supported
  • HTML5 Video is not working with AngularJS ng-src tag
    1 project | /r/codehunter | 13 Nov 2022
    Is this not supported in AngularJS, what is the workaround for this?
  • What is the deal with Decentraleyes in 2022? Is it outdated? Is it useless? Is it safe?
    2 projects | /r/firefox | 20 Aug 2022
    One example: The latest angularjs version is 1.8.3 but the most recent version on Decentraleyes is 1.6.5 (released on July 3rd, 2017)
  • AngularJS 1.8.3 Download
    1 project | /r/angularjs | 6 Jun 2022
  • DataTables: Custom Response Handling
    2 projects | /r/codehunter | 12 Apr 2022
    I started working on AngularJS and DataTables and wonder whether it is possible to customize the response DataTables is expecting. The current expectation of the DataTables plugin is something like this:
  • Angular vs React vs Vue
    2 projects | dev.to | 11 Apr 2022
    Huge Community: The framework has around 45k stars on Github and over 500.000 downloads on weekly basis from npm. The huge community ensures a variety of solutions for all the versions of AngularJS. The bigger the community more is the support from experienced developers and users.
  • Angular lazy one-time binding for expressions
    1 project | /r/codehunter | 11 Apr 2022
    AngularJS has a new feature since the version 1.3.0-beta.10: the "lazy one-time binding".

Backbone.js

Posts with mentions or reviews of Backbone.js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-17.
  • Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?
    37 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jun 2023
  • React is 10 years old
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 May 2023
    Got it thanks for the context.

    I've read the web app and it seems to me it is just https://backbonejs.org/ re-written in Typescript and allows JSX.

    I'm very certain Typescript and JSX will have improved the DX for Backbone like apps, but it doesn't address all of the other issues that teams had with Backbone.

    e.g. Cyclical event propagation, state stored in the DOM (i.e. appendChild is error prone in large code bases), etc.

  • Just Simply – Stop saying how simple things are in our docs
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Apr 2023
  • The Emperor's New Library
    5 projects | dev.to | 13 Feb 2023
    What we see, a decade ago, are that many of the "popular" libraries, frameworks, and methods, not surprisingly, have gone by the wayside, a lot that have remained in current code as difficult-to-removemodernize legacy cruft (Bower, Gulp, Grunt, Backbone, Angular 1, ...), and then we have the small minority that are still here. Some that remain have had their utility lessened/questioned by platform and language improvements (jQuery, lodash, ...), but very, very few exist that are the same now as they were then. Another fun historical reference: issue #118 of "JavaScript Weekly" (February 22, 2013) includes a first link out to asm.js.
  • How To Choose The Right Framework For Your Next Node.js App.
    8 projects | dev.to | 23 Sep 2022
    Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface. site Backbone.js *Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events…*backbonejs.org
  • Ajax requests fail after upgrading to Cordova 5.0 + [email protected]
    1 project | /r/codehunter | 13 Sep 2022
    The ajax request is made via a call to Backbone.sync() of Backbone.js, which ultimately calls jquery's $.ajax(). I haven't changed anything about how the call is made... just upgraded cordova.
  • Rate my build? Web dev GF recomends it.
    1 project | /r/pcmasterrace | 18 Jul 2022
    my gf said it was the best. she uses backbone.js she good dev
  • Top 5 JavaScript Frameworks for Frontend in 2022
    4 projects | dev.to | 14 Jun 2022
    Backbone.js
  • Why do we need a Single Page Application? [closed]
    3 projects | /r/codehunter | 15 Mar 2022
    A lot of SPA frameworks and libraries also were developed. We can find out some of its on the internet. They are AngularJs, Reactjs, BackboneJs, DurandalJs,.. and a lot of third party components to make the Javascript coding more easy like RequireJs, Amplifyjs, BreezeJs...
  • Angular: A shift in paradigm
    3 projects | dev.to | 13 Mar 2022
    As the internet became faster, and more reliable, and as browsers unified into “evergreen” releases, developers accepted JSON to be the only shape of data needed to travel on wires. A few years back I posted a question of which was a better framework: serving fully processed HTML scripts over Ajax, or only JSON that would be populated on client-side. See, back then, populating JSON was hand crafted, before Knockout, before Backbone, and few other players I don’t recall. The thing you could use back then was Mustache-like, which -by the way- still is a favorite of mine when venturing outside of SPA zone.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing AngularJS and Backbone.js you can also consider the following projects:

Stimulus - A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have [Moved to: https://github.com/hotwired/stimulus]

Vue.js - This is the repo for Vue 2. For Vue 3, go to https://github.com/vuejs/core

React - The library for web and native user interfaces.

Next.js - The React Framework

Svelte - Cybernetically enhanced web apps

donejs - Your app. Done.

dotenv - Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects.

riot - Simple and elegant component-based UI library

spine - Lightweight MVC library for building JavaScript applications