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tbranyen
backbone-boilerplate
JavaScript2012–2013
tbranyen / backbone-boilerplate

backbone-boilerplate

A workflow for building Backbone applications.

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11Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
4.4KGitHub stars
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What it is

A workflow for building Backbone applications.

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:49:33 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-01-11 04:59:32 UTC to 2013-03-12 21:19:38 UTC.

0122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsJan 20122012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 20122012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 2013

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jan 20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Feb 20122012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Mar 20122012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20122012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20122012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20122012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jul 20122012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20122012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20122012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 20122012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20122012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20122012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jan 20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Feb 20132013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Mar 20132013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I'm using Brunch[1] for a current project, and have used Backbone Boilerplate[2] in the past. Brunch is pretty great, though bbb is better hooked up with requirejs out of the box, if you're into that kind of thing. I really want Yeoman to take off, in particular because I really want one of these tools to become the breakout hit. I'd rather everyone be focusing on improving one tool instead of all this effort going diffuse across a bunch of different solutions. I'm a python dev, and I thank the stars that pip became so standard. (Not that this is a direct analog to pip, but pip provides a subset of this functionality when it comes to packaging.) One note: the Ember init is waaaay basic. I know that these are going to be community maintained, but I would have hoped that the Ember generator bundled with this initial release would have inclu
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ded at least commonjs or requirejs integration. [1]http://www.brunch.io [2]https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate
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