<p>Developers these days are spoiled with choice when it comes to selecting an <strong>MV* framework</strong> for structuring and organizing JavaScript web apps.</p>
<p>Developers these days are spoiled with choice when it comes to selecting an <strong>MV* framework</strong> for structuring and organizing JavaScript web apps.</p>
<p>Backbone, Ember, AngularJS, Spine... the list of new and stable solutions goes on and on, but just how do you decide on which to use in a sea of so many options?</p>
<p>To help solve this problem, we created <ahref="https://github.com/addyosmani/todomvc">TodoMVC</a> - a project which offers the same Todo application implemented using MV* concepts in most of the popular JavaScript MV* frameworks of today.</p>
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<h2>Our Stable Apps</h2>
<ulclass="applist">
<li>
<aclass="routing"href="architecture-examples/angularjs/"data-source="http://angularjs.org"data-content="What HTML would have been had it been designed for web apps">AngularJS</a>
<ahref="architecture-examples/backbone/"data-source="http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/"data-content="Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.">Backbone.js</a>
<spanclass="label">R</span>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="architecture-examples/backbone/"data-source="http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/"data-content="Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.">Backbone.js</a>
<ahref="architecture-examples/emberjs/"data-source="http://emberjs.com"data-content="Ember is a JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications that eliminates boilerplate and provides a standard application architecture.">Ember.js</a>
<spanclass="label">R</span>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="architecture-examples/emberjs/"data-source="http://emberjs.com"data-content="Ember is a JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications that eliminates boilerplate and provides a standard application architecture.">Ember.js</a>
<aclass="routing"href="architecture-examples/angularjs/"data-source="http://angularjs.org"data-content="What HTML would have been had it been designed for web apps">AngularJS</a>
<spanclass="label">R</span>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="architecture-examples/spine/"data-source="http://spinejs.com"data-content="Spine is a lightweight framework for building JavaScript web applications. Spine gives you an MVC structure and then gets out of your way, allowing you to concentrate on the fun stuff, building awesome web applications.">Spine.js</a>
<ahref="architecture-examples/spine/"data-source="http://spinejs.com"data-content="Spine is a lightweight framework for building JavaScript web applications. Spine gives you an MVC structure and then gets out of your way, allowing you to concentrate on the fun stuff, building awesome web applications.">Spine</a>
<spanclass="label">R</span>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="architecture-examples/knockoutjs/"data-source="http://knockoutjs.com"data-content="Simplify dynamic JavaScript UIs by applying the Model-View-View Model (MVVM) pattern">KnockoutJS</a>
<spanclass="label">R</span>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="architecture-examples/dojo/"data-source="http://dojotoolkit.org"data-content="Dojo saves you time and scales with your development process, using web standards as its platform. It’s the toolkit experienced developers turn to for building high quality desktop and mobile web applications.">Dojo</a>
<spanclass="label">R</span>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="architecture-examples/yuilibrary/"data-source="http://yuilibrary.com"data-content="YUI's lightweight core and modular architecture make it scalable, fast, and robust. Built by frontend engineers at Yahoo!, YUI powers the most popular websites in the world.">YUILibrary</a>
<ahref="architecture-examples/yuilibrary/"data-source="http://yuilibrary.com"data-content="YUI's lightweight core and modular architecture make it scalable, fast, and robust. Built by frontend engineers at Yahoo!, YUI powers the most popular websites in the world.">YUI</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="architecture-examples/gwt/"data-source="https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/"data-content="Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an MVP development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. GWT is used by many products at Google, including Google AdWords.">GWT</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="architecture-examples/closure/"data-source="http://code.google.com/closure/library/"data-content="The Closure Library is a broad, well-tested, modular, and cross-browser JavaScript library. You can pull just what you need from a large set of reusable UI widgets and controls, and from lower-level utilities for DOM manipulation, server communication, animation, data structures, unit testing, rich-text editing, and more.">Closure</a>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/batman/"data-source="http://batmanjs.org"data-content="Batman.js is a framework for building rich web applications with CoffeeScript or JavaScript. App code is concise and declarative, thanks to a powerful system of view bindings and observable properties. The API is designed with developer and designer happiness as its first priority.">Batman.js</a>
<spanclass="label">R</span>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/batman/"data-source="http://batmanjs.org"data-content="Batman.js is a framework for building rich web applications with CoffeeScript or JavaScript. App code is concise and declarative, thanks to a powerful system of view bindings and observable properties. The API is designed with developer and designer happiness as its first priority.">Batman.js</a>
<ahref="architecture-examples/closure/"data-source="http://code.google.com/closure/library/"data-content="The Closure Library is a broad, well-tested, modular, and cross-browser JavaScript library. You can pull just what you need from a large set of reusable UI widgets and controls, and from lower-level utilities for DOM manipulation, server communication, animation, data structures, unit testing, rich-text editing, and more.">Closure</a>
<spanclass="label">R</span>
</li>
<li>
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<ahref="architecture-examples/knockback/"data-source="http://kmalakoff.github.com/knockback/"data-content="Knockback.js provides Knockout.js magic for Backbone.js Models and Collections.">Knockback.js</a>
<spanclass="label">R</span>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="architecture-examples/gwt/"data-source="https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/"data-content="Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an MVP development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. GWT is used by many products at Google, including Google AdWords.">GWT</a>
</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Apps using RequireJS/AMD</h2>
<ulclass="applist amd">
<li>
<ahref="dependency-examples/backbone_require/"data-source="http://requirejs.org"data-content="RequireJS is a JavaScript file and module loader. It is optimized for in-browser use, but it can be used in other JavaScript environments, like Rhino and Node. Using a modular script loader like RequireJS will improve the speed and quality of your code.">Backbone.js + RequireJS</a>
<spanclass="label">R</span>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="dependency-examples/emberjs_require/"data-source="http://emberjs.com"data-content="Ember is a JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications that eliminates boilerplate and provides a standard application architecture. This is an example of using it with AMD modules">Ember.js + RequireJS</a>
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<h2>Labs</h2>
<ulclass="applist labs">
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/cujo/"data-source="http://cujojs.github.com"data-content="JavaScriptMVC is an open-source framework containing the best ideas in jQuery development. It guides you to successfully completed projects by promoting best practices, maintainability, and convention over configuration.">cujo.js *</a>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/maria/src/"data-source="https://github.com/petermichaux/maria"data-content="An MVC framework for JavaScript applications. The real MVC. The Smalltalk MVC. The Gang of Four MVC. The three core design patterns of MVC (observer, composite, and strategy) are embedded in Maria's Model, View, and Controller objects. Other patterns traditionally included in MVC implementations (e.g. factory method and template) make appearances too.">Maria</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/maria/src/"data-source="https://github.com/petermichaux/maria"data-content="An MVC framework for JavaScript applications. The real MVC. The Smalltalk MVC. The Gang of Four MVC. The three core design patterns of MVC (observer, composite, and strategy) are embedded in Maria's Model, View, and Controller objects. Other patterns traditionally included in MVC implementations (e.g. factory method and template) make appearances too.">Maria</a>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/cujo/"data-source="http://cujojs.github.com"data-content="JavaScriptMVC is an open-source framework containing the best ideas in jQuery development. It guides you to successfully completed projects by promoting best practices, maintainability, and convention over configuration.">cujo.js</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="http://todomvc.meteor.com"data-source="http://meteor.com"data-content="Meteor is an ultra-simple environment for building modern websites.A Meteor application is a mix of JavaScript that runs inside a client web browser, JavaScript that runs on the Meteor server inside a Node.js container, and all the supporting HTML fragments, CSS rules, and static assets. Meteor automates the packaging and transmission of these different components. And, it is quite flexible about how you choose to structure those components in your file tree.">Meteor *</a>
<ahref="http://todomvc.meteor.com"data-source="http://meteor.com"data-content="Meteor is an ultra-simple environment for building modern websites.A Meteor application is a mix of JavaScript that runs inside a client web browser, JavaScript that runs on the Meteor server inside a Node.js container, and all the supporting HTML fragments, CSS rules, and static assets. Meteor automates the packaging and transmission of these different components. And, it is quite flexible about how you choose to structure those components in your file tree.">Meteor</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/stapes/"data-source="http://hay.github.com/stapes/"data-content="Stapes is a (really) tiny Javascript MVC micro-framework (1.7kb) that has all the building blocks you need when writing an MVC app. It includes a powerful event system, support for inheritance, use with AMD, plugin support and more. A RequireJS Todo application is <a href='dependency-examples/stapes_require/index.html'>also</a>
available.">Stapes *</a>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/socketstream/"data-source="http://www.socketstream.org"data-content="SocketStream is a fast, modular Node.js web framework dedicated to building realtime single-page apps">SocketStream + jQuery</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/troopjs/"data-source="https://github.com/troopjs/"data-content="TroopJS attempts to package popular front-end technologies and bind them with minimal effort for the developer. It includes jQuery for DOM manipulation, ComposeJS for object composition, RequireJS for modularity and Has.js for feature detection. On top, it includes Pub/Sub support, templating, weaving (widgets to DOM) and auto-wiring.">TroopJS *</a>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/extjs/"data-source="http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs"data-content="Ext JS 4 is the next major advancement in our JavaScript framework. Featuring expanded functionality, plugin-free charting, and a new MVC architecture it's the best Ext JS yet. Create incredible web apps for every browser.">Ext.js</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/fun/"data-source="https://github.com/marcuswestin/fun"data-content="Fun is not an MVC framework, but a programming language meant to tackle MVC/UI programming on a deeper, more fundamental level - part reactive/functional and part sequential/procedural.">Fun *</a>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/sammyjs/"data-source="http://sammyjs.org"data-content="Sammy.js is a tiny JavaScript framework developed to ease the pain and provide a basic structure for developing JavaScript applications.">Sammy.js</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/duel/www/"data-source="https://bitbucket.org/mckamey/duel/wiki/Home"data-content="DUEL is a dual-side templating engine using HTML for layout and 100% pure JavaScript as the binding language. The same views may be executed both directly in the browser (client-side template) and on the server (server-side template).">DUEL *</a>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/javascriptmvc/todo/todo/"data-source="http://javascriptmvc.com"data-content="JavaScriptMVC is an open-source framework containing the best ideas in jQuery development. It guides you to successfully completed projects by promoting best practices, maintainability, and convention over configuration.">JavaScriptMVC</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/fidel/"data-source="https://github.com/jgallen23/fidel"data-content="Fidel is a micro-framework for building widgets, modules and plugins. It resembles the controller in Spine.js and could be considered a controller library. Having not heavily needed models and routing in some of the single-page applications the author built, he found a library focusing on controller logic more useful.">Fidel</a>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/stapes/"data-source="http://hay.github.com/stapes/"data-content="Stapes is a (really) tiny Javascript MVC micro-framework (1.7kb) that has all the building blocks you need when writing an MVC app. It includes a powerful event system, support for inheritance, use with AMD, plugin support and more. A RequireJS Todo application is <a href='dependency-examples/stapes_require/index.html'>also</a>
available.">Stapes</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/broke/"data-source="https://github.com/brokenseal/broke-client"data-content="The Broke Javascript Framework is a porting of the fantastic Django Web Framework on Javascript. It summarizes all the best concepts present in Django like url resolving, decoupling, DRY principle, project-specific settings and a pretty simple template engine. It could be put in the big Javascript MVC frameworks group outside there, but, as Django is, this is more a MTV (Model-Template-View) framework.">Broke.js</a>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/troopjs/"data-source="https://github.com/troopjs/"data-content="TroopJS attempts to package popular front-end technologies and bind them with minimal effort for the developer. It includes jQuery for DOM manipulation, ComposeJS for object composition, RequireJS for modularity and Has.js for feature detection. On top, it includes Pub/Sub support, templating, weaving (widgets to DOM) and auto-wiring.">TroopJS</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/o_O/"data-source="http://weepy.github.com/o_O/"data-content="o_O: HTML binding for teh lulz: <br> - Elegantly binds objects to HTML<br>- Proxies through jQuery, Ender, etc<br>- Automatic dependency resolution<br>- Plays well with others">Funnyface.js *</a>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/somajs/"data-source="http://somajs.github.com/somajs"data-content="soma.js is a JavaScript Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework that is meant to help developers to write loosely-coupled applications to increase scalability and maintainability.">soma.js</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/javascriptmvc/todo/todo/"data-source="http://javascriptmvc.com"data-content="JavaScriptMVC is an open-source framework containing the best ideas in jQuery development. It guides you to successfully completed projects by promoting best practices, maintainability, and convention over configuration.">JavaScriptMVC</a>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/duel/www/"data-source="https://bitbucket.org/mckamey/duel/wiki/Home"data-content="DUEL is a dual-side templating engine using HTML for layout and 100% pure JavaScript as the binding language. The same views may be executed both directly in the browser (client-side template) and on the server (server-side template).">DUEL</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/extjs/"data-source="http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs"data-content="Ext JS 4 is the next major advancement in our JavaScript framework. Featuring expanded functionality, plugin-free charting, and a new MVC architecture it's the best Ext JS yet. Create incredible web apps for every browser.">Ext.js</a>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/fidel/"data-source="https://github.com/jgallen23/fidel"data-content="Fidel is a micro-framework for building widgets, modules and plugins. It resembles the controller in Spine.js and could be considered a controller library. Having not heavily needed models and routing in some of the single-page applications the author built, he found a library focusing on controller logic more useful.">Fidel</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/socketstream/"data-source="http://www.socketstream.org"data-content="SocketStream is a fast, modular Node.js web framework dedicated to building realtime single-page apps">SocketStream + jQuery</a>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/olives/"data-source="https://github.com/flams/olives"data-content="Olives is a JS MVC framework that helps you create realtime UIs. It includes a set of AMD/CommonJS modules that are easily extensive, a high level of abstraction to reduce boilerplate and is based on socket.io, to provide a powerful means to communicate with node.js.">Olives</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/olives/"data-source="https://github.com/flams/olives"data-content="Olives is a JS MVC framework that helps you create realtime UIs. It includes a set of AMD/CommonJS modules that are easily extensive, a high level of abstraction to reduce boilerplate and is based on socket.io, to provide a powerful means to communicate with node.js.">Olives *</a>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/plastronjs/"data-source="https://github.com/rhysbrettbowen/PlastronJS"data-content="PlastronJS is an mvc framework built on top of the Closure Library and built to compile with projects that use the Closure Compiler.">PlastronJS</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/somajs/"data-source="http://somajs.github.com/somajs"data-content="soma.js is a JavaScript Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework that is meant to help developers to write loosely-coupled applications to increase scalability and maintainability.">soma.js *</a>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/dijon/"data-source="https://github.com/creynders/dijon-framework"data-content="Dijon is an IOC and DI micro-framework for Javascript. Originally it was meant to be a port of Robotlegs, but deviated to something quite different. It remains however heavily inspired by Robotlegs, and more specifically Swiftsuspenders.">Dijon</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/rappidjs/"data-source="http://www.rappidjs.com"data-content="rAppid.js is a declarative JavaScript framework for rapid web application development. It supports dependency loading, Model-View binding, View-Model binding, dependency injection and i18n.">rAppid.js</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/dijon/"data-source="https://github.com/creynders/dijon-framework"data-content="Dijon is an IOC and DI micro-framework for Javascript. Originally it was meant to be a port of Robotlegs, but deviated to something quite different. It remains however heavily inspired by Robotlegs, and more specifically Swiftsuspenders.">Dijon *</a>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/broke/"data-source="https://github.com/brokenseal/broke-client"data-content="The Broke Javascript Framework is a porting of the fantastic Django Web Framework on Javascript. It summarizes all the best concepts present in Django like url resolving, decoupling, DRY principle, project-specific settings and a pretty simple template engine. It could be put in the big Javascript MVC frameworks group outside there, but, as Django is, this is more a MTV (Model-Template-View) framework.">Broke.js</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/sammyjs/"data-source="http://sammyjs.org"data-content="Sammy.js is a tiny JavaScript framework developed to ease the pain and provide a basic structure for developing JavaScript applications.">Sammy.js</a>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/o_O/"data-source="http://weepy.github.com/o_O/"data-content="o_O: HTML binding for teh lulz: <br> - Elegantly binds objects to HTML<br>- Proxies through jQuery, Ender, etc<br>- Automatic dependency resolution<br>- Plays well with others">Funnyface.js</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/dependency-examples/knockoutjs_require/"data-source="http://knockoutjs.com"data-content="This project is an adaptation of /architecture-examples/knockoutjs with require.js.">Knockout + Require.js *</a>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/fun/"data-source="https://github.com/marcuswestin/fun"data-content="Fun is not an MVC framework, but a programming language meant to tackle MVC/UI programming on a deeper, more fundamental level - part reactive/functional and part sequential/procedural.">Fun</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/dependency-examples/angularjs_require/"data-source="http://angularjs.org"data-content="What HTML would have been had it been designed for web apps. This is an example of using it with AMD modules.">AngularJS + RequireJS</a>
<ahref="labs/dependency-examples/knockoutjs_require/"data-source="http://knockoutjs.com"data-content="This project is an adaptation of /architecture-examples/knockoutjs with require.js.">Knockout + Require.js</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="architecture-examples/angularjs-perf/"data-source="http://angularjs.org"data-content="What HTML would have been had it been designed for web apps. A version with several performance optimizations.">AngularJS (Optimized)</a>
<ahref="labs/dependency-examples/angularjs_require/"data-source="http://angularjs.org"data-content="What HTML would have been had it been designed for web apps. This is an example of using it with AMD modules.">AngularJS + RequireJS</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/plastronjs/"data-source="https://github.com/rhysbrettbowen/PlastronJS"data-content="PlastronJS is an mvc framework built on top of the Closure Library and built to compile with projects that use the Closure Compiler.">PlastronJS *</a>
<ahref="architecture-examples/angularjs-perf/"data-source="http://angularjs.org"data-content="What HTML would have been had it been designed for web apps. A version with several performance optimizations.">AngularJS (optimized)</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="labs/architecture-examples/canjs/dojo/"data-source="http://canjs.us"data-content="CanJS with Dojo. CanJS is a client-side, JavaScript framework that makes building rich web applications easy. It provides can.Model (for connecting to RESTful JSON interfaces), can.View (for template loading and caching), can.Observe (for key-value binding), can.EJS (live binding templates), can.Control (declarative event bindings) and can.route (routing support).">CanJS (Dojo)</a>
