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Backbone 0.9; Getting strong for 1.0

Posted by Dion Almaer about a year ago on backbone js mvc

Backbone continues to go from strength to strength. Today we see a bump from the stable 0.5.3 release (back in August, 9th 2011) to 0.9 which Jeremy is calling a "preview of 1.0". This release isn't about big bang features, but instead about cleaning up shop.

Backbone 0.5 doesn’t force you to smoking hash

Posted by Dion Almaer about a year ago on backbone mvc urls

Backbone 0.5.1 is out. The 0.5 release is big for those who dislike #hashurls.

SproutCore 2; Lean, Mean, and back to HTML

Posted by Dion Almaer about a year ago on library mvc sproutcore

Today we got a sneak peak at the next version of SproutCore via a developer preview. One of the biggest differences that jumped out to me was the change from coding everything through JS APIs to being able to do much more via HTML, CSS, and templates (handle bars).

Batman is ready to take on all evils, and side kicks can still help

Posted by Dion Almaer 2 years ago on coffeescript framework javascript library mvc

There has been a lot of buzz around Nick Small's presentation where he unleashed the super hero Batman.js.
Batman is a framework we developed at Shopify for rapidly building Javascript applications. It's designed for maximum designer and developer cohesion and speed in every facet. It provides two simple but powerful concepts and favors convention over configuration to help you quickly write functioning code. In addition, Batman provides a number of helpers to take care of the menial tasks so you can concentrate on the cool stuff.

Spine: Another take on your Backbone

Posted by Dion Almaer 2 years ago on backbone framework javascript mvc spine

Spine is a new Backbone-esque lightweight MVC framework that prides itself on prototypical inheritance and "tell the server after I update the UI" patterns.