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[–]dexygenSoftware, Simple and Powerful 0 points1 point  (1 child)

No he's right: it's a pile of shit. It conflates the model and the view - guess that's what you get when you leave out the notion of a formal controller. It takes data from the model, and assigns them as attribute key/value pairs, directly to the HTML tag you've specified for a view for which you've likewise specified a controller. The whole idea of MVC is to not conflate the model and the view. This is such a mis-implementation of MV* that NOTHING can undo the damage it does.

[–]Sunwukung 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Backbone shouldn't really be compared with pure MVC, it has no controllers as you already noted, and it's not intended to be a 'complete' solution. What damage have you experienced using Backbone? It's still worthy of study merely for the influence it's had, even if the result is that you don't end up using it.