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rushabh on July 29, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Backbone.js Tips : Lessons from the trenches

After studying backbone and other such Javascript MVC frameworks, I realized that they are not necessary.

JS has a wonderful MVC architecture built-in. all JS objects are models by defaults, all views (HTML elements) are models too, and JQuery has a lot of helper functions to simplify events.

These frameworks give you a good idea of how to organize your code better and help you standardize implementation, but if you know what you are doing, you can do it anyways.

Edit: typo

Pewpewarrows on July 29, 2011 [–]

Attitudes like this are what cause giant, unmaintainable spaghetti-code front-end applications to be born.

rushabh on July 29, 2011 | [–]

Code becomes unmaintable when it is not object oriented, ESP for front end applications. Nothing to do with using slick looking syntax, IMHO

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