What is Ampersand.js?
We <3 Backbone.js at &yet. It’s brilliantly simple and solves many common problems in developing clientside applications. But we missed the focused simplicity of tiny modules in node-land. We wanted something similar in style and philosophy, but that fully embraced tiny modules, npm, and browserify. Ampersand.js is a well-defined approach to combining (get it?) a series of intentionally tiny modules.
Ampersand.js is a tool in the Javascript MVC Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Ampersand.js is an open source tool with 811 GitHub stars and 41 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Ampersand.js's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Ampersand.js?
Companies
5 companies reportedly use Ampersand.js in their tech stacks, including Shore GmbH, Infiniscene, and liandri.it.
Developers
10 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Ampersand.js.
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