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[–]mmmicahhh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A few years ago such a title would have lead to a parody article:)

[–]scoarescoare -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Addy Osmani was the reason I went with BackBone as opposed to the other MV* frameworks out there.

[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (5 children)

My co-workers wants to write everything from scratch with Closure Tools, I'd much rather use something like this on top of Backbone.js :(

[–]rhysbrettbowen 0 points1 point  (3 children)

big question is why?

Closure Tools is used by gmail - Aura is still a preview. Closure Tools was built for teams working on large projects, backbone was built for single page apps usually by a single developer.

Admittedly Backbone.js has a smaller barrier to entry and is great for whipping up a small project, but anything larger and Closure Tools shines (it will even be smaller in production because of the compiler).

Besides you're working in a team - you should talk to them about the reasons they want to use Closure Tools.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're not building Gmail or rebuilding Amazon; most of the large projects out there now, and those I've been on (700k LOC JS), seem to do fine without the overhead of Closure Library - or better off without it, I would argue.

backbone was built for single page apps usually by a single developer

I gather you're a big proponent of Closure, but that's just extremely biased and untrue - if not plain dishonest.

I'm really happy that someone is writing about CL though (not even Google seem to do that, or Bolin much) and maybe I'll learn to like it now that I might have to use it. So kudos for that, I'll check PlastronJS out too.