Backbone.js vs Marionette: What are the differences?

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; Marionette: Make your Backbone applications dance. Marionette brings an application architecture to Backbone, along with built in view management and memory management. Backbone.Marionette is a composite application library for Backbone.js that aims to simplify the construction of large scale JavaScript applications. It is a collection of common design and implementation patterns found in applications.

Backbone.js and Marionette can be categorized as "Javascript MVC Frameworks" tools.

"Javascript structure" is the top reason why over 136 developers like Backbone.js, while over 19 developers mention "Uses Backbone" as the leading cause for choosing Marionette.

Backbone.js and Marionette are both open source tools. Backbone.js with 27.5K GitHub stars and 5.7K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Marionette with 7.15K GitHub stars and 1.35K GitHub forks.

Uber Technologies, Pinterest, and LinkedIn are some of the popular companies that use Backbone.js, whereas Marionette is used by Zinc, Sonarr, and Kayako. Backbone.js has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1066 company stacks & 217 developers stacks; compared to Marionette, which is listed in 35 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.