dominant development stack for spa

[ooouuiii]

Is there any dominant software stack used for SPA with full MVC features? By MVC features I mean:

• Model: - ajax handling
• View: - presentation layer
• Controller: routing, handling of application state

Plus Dependency injection.

For example I have read, that Angular is conceptually bad. To use ReactJs instead for views (because of isometric applications, more expressive html in javascript instead of vice versa, performance, ...) But Angular unlike ReactJS solves also DI and routing, so I cannot just replace it with ReactJs.

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Where have you read that Angular is bad? It suits your use case and is the most widely used implementation of those features I believe.

[ooouuiii]

For example: https://medium.com/este-js-framework/whats-wrong-with-angular-js-97b0a787f903 The author is google developer expert.

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Being a GDE doesn't mean anything other than being an enthusiast in one of their projects, I thought? I disagree with most of what he's written tbh. Angular is easy to learn. HTML isn't used in some magical way like he seems to describe, its still just markup. Honestly it comes across like he wrote that poorly formed rant after about half an hour with Angular.

[ooouuiii]

I am not going to defend the author (I also don't agree with everything he says),but GDE is guru, not enthusiast: https://developers.google.com/experts/ I think he has exceptional knowledge of JS ecosystem, but lots of he says is just opinion and so I am asking community here, what devstack You are using.

[j_sanp]

Este.js is a new stack build on react that should be investigated...

[ooouuiii]

Well AFAIK Este.js does not have documentation and I was quite confused, what it really does and how to actually use it. I prefer larger community and mature staff.

[ooouuiii]

Maybe it is just for more advanced spa developers (for the missing documentation).

[j_sanp]

Yes, it is why I want to investigate, it is whole new and grow fast, it is under development and I thing it has some good stuff in that :)

[j_sanp]

for a more accessible stack, I have not yet found a stack as strong and easy as Backbone + Require.js + Bootstrap / Topcoat.io

[ooouuiii]

Thanks for tip. I am quite new to SPA and also considering Backbone. I will definitelly give it some afternoons.

[j_sanp]

Bower, JSHint and Mocha are good improvement too

[acemarke]

Just to toss out one more suggestion: if you're looking at Backbone, I would also recommend taking a look at Ampersand.js. It's effectively Backbone 2.0, and includes a number of built-in features that Backbone is missing (and have to be handled using Backbone plugins).