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Backbone.js: Give your JS App some Backbone with Models, Views, Collections, and Events. Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface; Framework7: Full Featured HTML Framework For Building iOS Apps. Framework7 - is a free and open source mobile HTML framework to develop hybrid mobile apps or web apps with iOS native look and feel. All you need to make it work is a simple HTML layout and attached framework's CSS and JS files! Framework7 doesn't force you to write some custom tags that will be converted by JavaScript to something else.

Backbone.js can be classified as a tool in the "Javascript MVC Frameworks" category, while Framework7 is grouped under "Cross-Platform Mobile Development".

"Javascript structure" is the primary reason why developers consider Backbone.js over the competitors, whereas "Well designed" was stated as the key factor in picking Framework7.

Backbone.js and Framework7 are both open source tools. Backbone.js with 27.5K GitHub stars and 5.7K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Framework7 with 14.5K GitHub stars and 3.04K GitHub forks.

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Pros of Backbone.js
Pros of Framework7
  • 135
    Javascript structure
  • 101
    Models
  • 98
    Simple
  • 76
    Restful
  • 59
    Easy api
  • 46
    Flexible
  • 45
    Open source
  • 44
    Fast to pick up
  • 34
    Events
  • 25
    JSON
  • 8
    OOP
  • 2
    Lightweight
  • 1
    Collections
  • 1
    Easy customizable
  • 21
    Free and open source
  • 20
    Well designed
  • 17
    Material design
  • 15
    Lots of ready-to-use ui elements, easy to customize
  • 12
    Best performance
  • 11
    Amazing documentation
  • 9
    Nice look and best performance
  • 9
    Rtl support
  • 9
    Performance and great features.
  • 7
    Easy To Learn
  • 7
    Free
  • 6
    Basic Web App Development Technique
  • 6
    Nice sample provided
  • 5
    It's feels light to use
  • 5
    Quick inital time
  • 5
    Easy to use , transit from vanilla JS
  • 5
    Doesn't require learning a JS framework
  • 2
    Easy to integrate

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Cons of Backbone.js
Cons of Framework7
  • 1
    Requires underscore.js
  • 1
    Not suitable for high performance in PWA. desktop apps

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What is Backbone.js?

Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.

What is Framework7?

It is a free and open source mobile HTML framework to develop hybrid mobile apps or web apps with iOS native look and feel. All you need to make it work is a simple HTML layout and attached framework's CSS and JS files.

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