The Framework Nobody Wrote Down: Taking a Backbone App to React
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Backbone gave you models, views, a router and events, and left the rest to you. So most Backbone apps carry a homegrown framework on top: a global singleton, an event bus, a navigation controller, view cleanup code, a template build step and a drawer of jQuery plugins. Moving to React is mostly abo…
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- 2026-10-05 09:49 · DEV Community — AI
The Framework Nobody Wrote Down: Taking a Backbone App to React