I think Yehudas point was, why do you want to have just the minimal functionality when you are constantly grabbing for Backbone Addons just to do the standard stuff.
Having a plugable architecture is great, but if rails never considered making a good thing standard (think bundler, or sprockets) really makes moving between rails apps so much easier.
For example
I would say nested views, and view layouts is something that should be standard
- isn't backbone built for the single page web app idea?
I have seen so many different layout managers, region managers etc.
I would say that backbone wasn't built for the "single page web app idea". I think of it more as an elegant nucleus for apps that have heavy client side javascript. I think its the same approach that sets a project like node apart from rails. A strong, un-opinionated core with a healthy modules community which allows you to tailor all parts of your project.
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I think Yehudas point was, why do you want to have just the minimal functionality when you are constantly grabbing for Backbone Addons just to do the standard stuff.
Having a plugable architecture is great, but if rails never considered making a good thing standard (think bundler, or sprockets) really makes moving between rails apps so much easier.
For example I would say nested views, and view layouts is something that should be standard - isn't backbone built for the single page web app idea?
I have seen so many different layout managers, region managers etc.
I would say that backbone wasn't built for the "single page web app idea". I think of it more as an elegant nucleus for apps that have heavy client side javascript. I think its the same approach that sets a project like node apart from rails. A strong, un-opinionated core with a healthy modules community which allows you to tailor all parts of your project.