A Comparison of Angular, Backbone, CanJS and Ember

Re:A Comparison of Angular, Backbone, CanJS and Ember by WickyNilliams on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @08:31AM (#5564031)

I don't think it is, but others might. I've often sung KO's praises but it always seems fall to the wayside.

Personally I think KO would greatly benefit from more architectural guidance (as i mentioned above). You're left on your own architecturally and structurally, with little guidance or higher level constructs to assist. This is much like backbone, but with backbone there is a lot of guidance out there, and even frameworks built atop of it (e.g. Marionette) which aim to instil best practices.

Things I'd like to see, which might quell other's trepidation:

* A large-scale demo app, with a detailed run-through of the how's and why's

* A guide to unit testing ko apps

* Drop IE6 (maybe even IE7?!) support to make it super lightweight. It's never going to be backbone lightweight, but imagine being able to say the tiniest front-end framework with no dependencies - that's a powerful message

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Re:A Comparison of Angular, Backbone, CanJS and Ember by porker on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @08:54AM (#5564154)

Best practices and a large-scale app would be awesome!

The people in the IRC channel are very helpful (and will happily tell a cleaner way to do it than the KO examples on their website), but to have all this written up would be excellent.

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Re:A Comparison of Angular, Backbone, CanJS and Ember by WickyNilliams on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @10:45AM (#5564752)

Thanks for the tip about the IRC channel, didn't realise there was one out there. I assume it's on freenode?

But for most, hitting up an IRC channel is a barrier to entry they just won't have the enthusiasm to overcome. Such advice should be front and center, easy to access, up to date and canonical.

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Re:A Comparison of Angular, Backbone, CanJS and Ember by porker on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @12:39PM (#5565430)

Freenode indeed :)

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Re:A Comparison of Angular, Backbone, CanJS and Ember by Lazare on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @03:21PM (#5566482)

Knockouts documentation is fantastic, but geared at a very novice level. The lack of any guidance on unit testing is a particular frustration.

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Re:A Comparison of Angular, Backbone, CanJS and Ember by WickyNilliams on Thursday April 18, 2013 @07:02AM (#5569849)

I agree. The documenation is awesome. Concise, accurate and not confusing (i'm looking at you angular). And the interactive online tutorial is the icing on the cake. I posit that a complete beginner could get up and running with KO within a few hours.

But again, for non-beginners, I'd like to see more in-depth stuff.

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