rivets

> releasing a new JS framework every week mikeric/rivets/ v0.1.0 on Jul 13, 2012 https://github.com/mikeric/rivets/releases?after=v0.3.6 That's a strange definition of weeks.

Rivets.js can do mustache-style templating too: https://github.com/mikeric/rivets/pull/182

I would say it's because you guys are doing it wrong. Backbone is just a very bare-bones backbone for your app. As you say, views don't provide anything. In fact backbone barely helps you with organizing your code at all. It's great for making a todos app but terrible for anything stretching across multiple pages, and with more than 10 views on a page. Let's be serious here. DON'T USE BACKBONE TO START A NEW APP!!! DON'T USE BACKBONE TO START A NEW APP!!! DON'T USE BACKBONE TO START A NEW APP!!! Use one of the higher level frameworks built around backbone. The most flexible / clean, decoupled framework (my preference) is: https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.marionette If you like coffeescript: https://github.com/chaplinjs/chaplin If you want *only good views/layout: https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone.layoutmanager If you want model

Take a peek at the implementation if you haven't already -- it's easy to browse through in a minute or two: https://github.com/mikeric/rivets/blob/master/src/rivets.cof... ... although one thing to note is that it looks like it doesn't currently support IE (< 9).