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Re:Show HN: Espresso.js – React Meets Backbone for a Minimal... by dreamdu5t on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @02:34PM (#8591690)
It's not MVC. There are no controllers, and data in a Backbone app does not flow in a circular fashion. I consider Backbone views describable as presenters, and Backbone describable with the Model-View-Presenter (MVP) pattern.

MVP diagram: http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/files/2011/12/NewImage2.p...

Why Backbone is not MVC: http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2011/12/23/backbone-js-is...

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Re:Show HN: Espresso.js – React Meets Backbone for a Minimal... by couchand on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @02:44PM (#8591743)
Not sure if your comment is directed towards me or the OP. However, there is in fact a Controller class in this project, so you may be confusing this framework for vanilla Backbone?
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Re:Show HN: Espresso.js – React Meets Backbone for a Minimal... by weego on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @03:37PM (#8592004)
There is a Controller class, but in the demo app you can see that both App and ToDoItem extend Controller, which makes be believe that Controller is perhaps not what you'd expect.

Having said that, I much prefer Backbones presenter idiom over MVC.

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Re:Show HN: Espresso.js – React Meets Backbone for a Minimal... by akrymski on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @04:36PM (#8592343)
It's very much an MVC framework
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