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Disclaimer: I work on the batman.js team

It's an alternative to ember, angular, knockout, backbone, and all those other client side MVC frameworks.

Its main advantage is that it should be very familiar to a Rails developer. The APIs are very close to what you'd find in Rails, so it should be quick to get into it. Shopify, which is built in RoR, now is completely client-side powered by Batman.js. The project was extracted from that.

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hey pushmatrix, thanks for replying.

does batman.js have anything like angular's custom directives? are there any other features/advantages a possible adopter should know about besides the similarity to a Rails API?

EDIT: or perhaps phrased a slightly different way: why did you guys decide to create this instead of just using angular or one of the other existing options? or was this created before those options existed or had reached a mature state?

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