All I really need are client-side templates and awesome DOM binding.
What's the current best options?
What's the current best options?
Pick up a Backbone book and in two weeks your dangerous enough to use it. A month, you're in the groove. 6 months: Angul-who?
When you have implemented features enough to notice that it takes too many steps to make new views that resemble old ones, ease off from feature building, and make proper custom abstractions suitable for that particular project.
Also check out Backbone extension: Marionette for modularizing and backbone-documentmodel for non-linear forms.
Is this supposed to sell Backbone? Because I'm on a similar curve with Angular with just the online docs. Doing stuff in Angular is really unbelievably easy once you let go of your old preconceptions. It's a new way of thinking, but it's one that's very effective.
I'm planning to use it in my next project but haven't yet. It seems to fit the bill nicely.