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Backbone.js vs jsf: What are the differences?

Developers describe Backbone.js as "Give your JS App some Backbone with Models, Views, Collections, and Events". Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface. On the other hand, jsf is detailed as "It is use for building component-based web interfaces". It is used for building component-based user interfaces for web applications and was formalized as a standard through the Java Community.

Backbone.js and jsf can be primarily classified as "Javascript MVC Frameworks" tools.

Backbone.js is an open source tool with 27.5K GitHub stars and 5.68K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Backbone.js's open source repository on GitHub.

Uber Technologies, Pinterest, and reddit are some of the popular companies that use Backbone.js, whereas jsf is used by GameDuell, Universidade CEUMA, and Maps S.A.. Backbone.js has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1207 company stacks & 1124 developers stacks; compared to jsf, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 15 developer stacks.

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Pros of Backbone.js
Pros of JSF
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    Javascript structure
  • 101
    Models
  • 98
    Simple
  • 76
    Restful
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    Easy api
  • 46
    Flexible
  • 45
    Open source
  • 44
    Fast to pick up
  • 34
    Events
  • 25
    JSON
  • 8
    OOP
  • 2
    Lightweight
  • 1
    Collections
  • 1
    Easy customizable
  • 2
    Rich and comprehensive Request Life-cycle
  • 1
    Very Mature UI framework
  • 1
    Server Side component

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Cons of Backbone.js
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    Requires underscore.js
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    What is Backbone.js?

    Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.

    What is JSF?

    It is used for building component-based user interfaces for web applications and was formalized as a standard through the Java Community

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