Comparing Backbone.js and AngularJS while Refactoring Spaghetti jQuery
jQuery has definitely become popular in the last several years. Unfortunately you might have found that organizing your application with jQuery can become difficult and you may experience code that feels more like a plate of spaghetti logic.
Thankfully several frameworks have been developed (Backbone.js and AngularJS) to help address these concerns and they provide a mechanism to loosely couple your components and encourage you to organize your code in a way that can increase maintainability.
In this session we will take a look at a tightly coupled jQuery application and slow convert it to both a Backbone.js application and an AngularJS application. During the conversion we will introduce the various components of each framework and discuss some pros and cons of each approach.
In addition to an overview of the two frameworks, we will cover some helpful resources that you can reference as you dive into them on your own.
Elijah Manor is a Christian and a family man. He works at The Lampo Group (Dave Ramsey) as a front-end web developer. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft ASP.NET MVP, ASPInsider, IE userAgent, and a Pluralsight author. He enjoys blogging at http://elijahmanor.com and tweeting (@elijahmanor) about the things he learns.