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Being a relatively new web-developer I am surprised that these libraries didn't exist before. Is there a particular technical or historical reason that at around Sep 2010, a sudden development and interest in client-side javascript RIA applications and libraries? http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=backbonejs%2Cangularjs%2Cknockoutjs%2Cjquery%20tmpl&cmpt=q |
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I would say its just a matter of enough developer mindshare, combined with node.js invigorating the JavaScript community, combined with html5 hitting its stride. The fact is that these libraries are certainly not the first, even if they do have a sort of new breed feel to them. Not that it matters because it's still closed source, but my company created a rich client side JavaScript framework with many of the same ideas as the ones you mention - client side templating, data binding, MVC, REST based data services, automatic lazy loading, build tools, etc. And we've been doing it since 2008. Other frameworks have certainly cropped up in that time period as well before backbone, too. JavaScriptMVC has been around forever, and sproutcore too. |
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Although there has certainly been a lot of interest generated by platforms like angularjs, there have been proprietary solutions in Javascript going way back. The platform I'm most familiar with is Tibco's General Interface (GI). It is now part of Dojo and is Open Source. It combines Javascript and XSLT into a very cool platform. It does web services (always has) but also supports rest. You can integrate other Javascript libraries into it as well. It even has a GUI builder written in itself. The resulting UIs look more like traditional desktop UIs and that's probably been a turn-off for some folks. But it has lots of docs and a small but passionate community. |
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