Rewriting Avira's SPA from Backbone Marionette to Angular
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No more antivirus solutions from Avira? It's flagship product is a web app?
The rest of the article is just a useless commercial for AngularJS, filled with buzzwords and fallacies.
You can read more about the product here http://www.avira.com/en/avira-online-essentials
Please tell me more about the fallacies you see in the article.
And now for the useless AngularJS commercial part. Here are the fallacies:
- You argue for choosing AngularJS using statistics from github, now that's an "Argumentum ad populum". You chose AngularJS just to jump on the hype-train, because you don't give any other reasons beside "look, so many others are using it, it must be good".
- You don't explain how to achieve the results. You're just saying: "here are the results, you must believe me because I work at a company and write on blogs". This is called "Argument from authority". You could have crafted some toy examples to explain how is the debugging easier, or how does it help with the testability, but no such things from you.
[there are more, but these will suffice]
And another thing about your article: you should explain some of the buzzwords you use, not everyone knows them. For example: what does "velocity score" means and/or implies? I can't get anything about it from google, and that says a lot about it.
In the end, you have a nice skeleton for an article, but is not fleshed at all. Nice color, pretty, yet absolutely worthless, graphs and no content whatsoever. I hope you don't code as you write.
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I added certain links in the article (e.g. http://www.funnyant.com/), where the features of all frameworks are discussed and compared. Read it and you may understand the advantages. I'm sorry that you don't consider that a community driven project, managed by top talent from Google is not a good enough reason to invest some time into a framework.
I explained how we achieved the results: we rewrote it. The facts are pretty relevant and they may help other teams.
I will craft toy examples in next articles, so it's best to follow me if you really are that interested and would like to see more examples.
You can find more about velocity here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_(software_development) .
I'm sorry that you brought it to a personal level in the end, this explains a lot. Instead, I hope you have a good day and don't forget to follow me to see how well I code :).
Anyway, going to back to my issues, maybe you'll understand this time. Your article has not a single useful thing in it, it just regurgitates random facts. AngularJS might be the best thing since sliced bread, but you do a poor job at explaining why. Does it matter that it has more commits, forks and stars on github than alternative frameworks? No. Does it matter that is backed up by Google? No. But please explain why are these things relevant in any shape or form. It seems to me that you just went with the winner of a beauty pageant.
You didn't added certain links, you added just one link, and it was buried in a mountain of crap. It would have been nice if you expanded on the content from that link. You say that this is a tech post, but I don't see no tech in it (buzzwords =/= tech).
"We rewrote it". Yes, well argued, I see no flaw with that statement (/sarcasm). You could have said that you used X feature in Y manner to improve Z and thus replace the god old W way of doing things. But why bother? You were too busy counting github commits and whatnot.
Do you understand where I'm going with this? Or are you gonna reply with yet another "look up Avira" and "here's another argument from authority to prove me right" comment?
In the end, I think I'm just talking to a wall here, so I'll just leave you with a Pauli inspired statement: "you're article is not even wrong" (you'll get bonus points from me if you understand this one).
Unfortunately, you rush to make conclusions. It's my first post on medium (others will come for sure), but why this have to be the first article posted, ever?
About the rewrite: you have x features in backbone. Then you rewrite all the x features in angular and you compare the results.
e.g. https://tech.dropbox.com/2012/09/dropbox-dives-into-coffeesc...
Dropbox rewrote its javascript in coffeescript and saw a LOC improvement. They had a code in js and rewrote it in coffee. We had it in backbone and rewrote it in angular. I'll probably provide more details (with code and so on) in next blog posts, but I wanted to keep this one shorter, because it's not about how we implemented it, but more about the conclusions we reached.
In the end, it doesn't matter how many LOC you have in a certain language, framework, etc. It's more about the productivity and the quality. It worked for us very well in both cases, and I think this is the final idea.
I'm sorry that you bring the discussion to a personal level, again. I'm open for suggestions and would like to make further articles "more relevant" and share better content. If you think you can help me with this and with one suggestion or two, please get in touch.
Have a nice day!
Unfortunately, given the fact that it's missing 2 way data binding and it's not declarative, you end up with lots of boilerplate code and in the end you invest more time in writing your backbone application than in learning angular and writing the application in it.
To be honest, I'd only start a new project in angular or ember because they are extremely productive frameworks. Backbone was great more than 2 years ago.
behold... a view in 3 lines of code.
class Views.AlbumTracks extends Marionette.CompositeView
className: 'album-tracks'
template: 'album-tracks'A good reading when thinking that's necessary to bind dom elements, events, etc is here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14994391/how-do-i-think-i...
So, I'd say that this part could have also be done in backbone. It was also fast before, but we gained more than 1 second loading time with this refactoring.