1. JAVASCRIPT
FRAMEWORKS

2.  Maintained by Google and
community
 Initially Released on 2009
 Current stable release 1.4.7
~37kb total (gzip / minified)

3.  Created by Jeremy Ashkenas
 Initially Released on October
2010,
 Current stable release 1.2.3
 ~6.5kb total (gzip / minified)

4. ANGULAR JS VS BACKBONE JS

5.  Scoring system
 OK  Not Good Good

6. DEPENDENCIES

8. NO DEPENDENCIES

9. DATA BINDING
 Process that establishes a connection between the
application UI (User Interface) and business logic

10.  Data-binding is fully supported
 Models use standard JSON properties (e.g. car.color = "red";)
 Provides Option for Creating custom bindings

11.  Data-binding is not supported by
default.
 There are plugins available to
support Data-binding

12.  Used for routing your applications URL's when using
hash tags(#)
 Maps an url to a Javascript function
ROUTERS

13.  Router is very simple

14.  Router is similar to Backbone’s

15. VIEWS
 How the stuffs are displayed in the screen

16.  Simple and straight forward.
 Easy for developer with JQuery and DOM skills
 Simply extend Backbone.View, grab an element and put stuff
in it
 No Official Templating, but easy to add using

17.  Uses HTML as templating language
 Automatically pulls in HTML templates via AJAX when
needed

18. TESTING
 Support for testing application

19.  No default test solution;
 Test it your own
 Can use following third party solutions

20.  Fantastic test support.
 Designed from the beginning to be easy to test.
 Karma developed by Angular JS team is popular test runner

21. DATA
 How do I get data from the sever?

22.  Uses JQuery’s $.ajax to power Backbone.
 Very Easy to understand
 Default behavior is relatively easy to override

23.  No JQuery
 Can do with Angular’ s $http but much better using $resource
 Very good API
 Requires the ngResource module to be installed.

24.  How easy to get help?
COMMUNITY /DOCUMENTATION

25. THIRD PARTY INTEGRATION
 How easy to integrate another JS library?

26. DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

27. FINAL CHOICE