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Where's the separation between Presentation and Logic in Javascript MVC frameworks?

I had learned that following piece of code is bad because it is obstrusive javascript and mixes presentation with logic: <a href="" onclick="archive()">archive</a> The best practice was ...
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Architectural questions regarding, MV** frameworks, NoSQL data models, and gradual refactoring

I have a web app I would like to gradually refactor by adding structure to it. I have narrowed down the options to Backbone (with some plugins), Ember.js and AngularJS My goal is to refactor that ...
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What is this variation of MVC in JavaScript?

I am working on sorting out my Javascript code. Currently I have views implemented without any Model or collection. Now I working on separating Model from View. So for this transformation, I am ...
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Javascript MVC in principle

Suppose I want to implement MVC in JavaScript. I am not asking about MVC frameworks. I am asking how to build it in principle. Let's consider a search page of an e-commerce site, which works s ...
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How to verify the client's view is consistent with the remote model?

i'm designing a client-server system via web broswser and i have this problem: I send the data to the client via JSON, then the javascript view shows the stuff. Then the user takes actions and ...
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Design Patterns for Coordinating Change Event Listeners

I've been working with the Observer pattern in JavaScript using various popular libraries for a number of years (YUI & jQuery). It's often that I need to observe a set of property value changes ...
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Defining classes in JavaScript that exist in your back-end

Doesn't it seem relatively duplicative to define your Models in your backend code AND on your front end for a rich internet application? I'm porting a GUI application I had written to have a web ...
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Are JavaScript MVC Frameworks only for 'single-page' apps?

I've been looking into several of the JavaScript MVC Frameworks (Backbone.js, Spine, SproutCore,etc.) and it seems to me that all of these are designed to act as 'single-page' applications. All of the ...
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Storing page-specific javascript on an AJAX driven site?

I have a general question about the placement of javascript code in a AJAX-driven web application. At a previous job, we tended to throw everything in one monolithic file. When maintaining that file ...
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Patterns for ajax-heavy web applications

Up until now, I've been a great fan of the MVC pattern for developing web applications. For the web, I've developed mostly in PHP (with the Kohana and CodeIgniter frameworks) and Ruby (RoR). As my ...