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Marionette vs CanJS: What are the differences?
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; CanJS: Build CRUD apps in fewer lines of code. CanJS is an evolving and improving set of client-side JavaScript architectural libraries that balances innovation and stability. It targets experienced developers building complex applications with long futures ahead of them.
Marionette and CanJS can be categorized as "Javascript MVC Frameworks" tools.
Marionette and CanJS are both open source tools. Marionette with 7.15K GitHub stars and 1.35K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than CanJS with 1.76K GitHub stars and 411 GitHub forks.
Pros of CanJS
Pros of Marionette
- MVC compliant20
- Uses Backbone20
- Views management13
- View management9
- JavaScript7
- Memory management6
- MVC Beginner-Friendly4
- Collections useful tools1