Ember.js VS Backbone.js

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

Ember.js

Ember.js - A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications (by emberjs)

Backbone.js

Give your JS App some Backbone with Models, Views, Collections, and Events (by jashkenas)
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Ember.js Backbone.js
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22,451 28,084
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9.4 7.8
4 days ago about 2 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Ember.js

Posts with mentions or reviews of Ember.js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-05.
  • Episode 24/13: Native Signals, Details on Angular/Wiz, Alan Agius on the Angular CLI
    11 projects | dev.to | 5 Apr 2024
    Similarly to Promises/A+, this effort focuses on aligning the JavaScript ecosystem. If this alignment is successful, then a standard could emerge, based on that experience. Several framework authors are collaborating here on a common model which could back their reactivity core. The current draft is based on design input from the authors/maintainers of Angular, Bubble, Ember, FAST, MobX, Preact, Qwik, RxJS, Solid, Starbeam, Svelte, Vue, Wiz, and more…
  • Ember-cli config
    2 projects | dev.to | 26 Jan 2024
    Ember pioneered the standardised usage of global cli tool. This is a perfect way to give new users a good onboarding experience as well as existing users power tools for daily usage.
  • 👩🏾‍💻React for beginners: an overview
    5 projects | dev.to | 2 Sep 2023
    Ember.js: Ember.js is an open-source JavaScript web framework that utilizes a component-service pattern. It allows developers to create scalable single-page web applications by incorporating common idioms, best practices, and patterns from other single-page-app ecosystem patterns into the framework.
  • Use Stencil / the ionic framework with emberjs [video]
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jul 2023
  • 30 Best Web Development Frameworks for 2023: A Comprehensive Guide
    5 projects | dev.to | 4 Jul 2023
    4. Ember.js
  • How popular are libraries in each technology
    21 projects | dev.to | 21 Jun 2023
    Other popular frontend libraries include Vue.js, Angular, and Ember.js. Vue.js is a progressive JavaScript framework that is gaining popularity due to its simplicity and ease of use. Surprisingly, Vue.js has been more popular than React.js for a long time if you consider the GitHub stars parameter alone. Angular is a framework developed by Google that is widely used in enterprise applications. Ember.js is a framework that is known for its convention over configuration approach and is used by companies such as Netflix and LinkedIn.
  • Quick full-stack app deployment using AWS and Ember.js
    5 projects | dev.to | 1 May 2023
    I've been working on a small side project, more on that later, and wanted a straight forward way to deploy a serverless full-stack app. I'm using Ember.js as the front-end framework and the back-end is AWS, Amazon Web Services, Lambda and other AWS services. This post describes the minimal setup to deploy a full-stack app with Ember.js and a Lambda API endpoint.
  • Which framework/tool should be more popular?
    1 project | /r/webdev | 7 Mar 2023
  • The Evolution of Signals in JavaScript
    2 projects | dev.to | 27 Feb 2023
    Disclaimer: I am the author of SolidJS. This article reflects the evolution from the perspective of my influences. Elm Signals, Ember's computed properties, and Meteor all deserve shoutouts although not covered in the article.
  • Invoking React components from your Ember apps
    6 projects | dev.to | 30 Jan 2023
    Ember is a framework for ambitious web developers. It is a productive, battle-tested JavaScript framework for building modern web applications. It includes everything you need to build rich UIs that work on any device. It has been around for more than 10 years and is still preferred and used by a lot of companies.

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 Ember.js and Backbone.js you can also consider the following projects:

feathers - The API and real-time application framework

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

Aurelia 1 - The Aurelia 1 framework entry point, bringing together all the required sub-modules of Aurelia.

Next.js - The React Framework

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

Svelte - Cybernetically enhanced web apps

Preact - ⚛️ Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API. Components & Virtual DOM.

React - The library for web and native user interfaces.

react-native - A framework for building native applications using React

spine - Lightweight MVC library for building JavaScript applications