Patrick Mulder (Fidor Bank) interviewed at Fluent 2014
summary
Backbone is an unopinionated library that gives a thin, controllable layer instead of a full MVC, it scales but takes effort to learn, it pairs commonly with Marionette and Walmart’s mobile framework for collection rendering, and Airbnb’s Rendr enables isomorphic rendering so views render on server and client; Backbone lacks built-in two-way binding so complex synchronized editors often push teams to Angular or Ember, while simpler e‑commerce and mobile UIs typically work well.
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