https://github.com/paulmillr/exoskeleton

Faster and leaner Backbone for your HTML5 apps
https://github.com/paulmillr/exoskeleton

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Faster and leaner Backbone for your HTML5 apps

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/paulmillr/exoskeleton
• Owner: paulmillr
• License: mit
• Archived: true
• Created: 2013-07-28T03:52:17.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-05-07T09:49:19.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-19T03:16:07.646Z (16 days ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: http://paulmillr.com/exoskeleton/
• Size: 619 KB
• Stars: 880
• Watchers: 39
• Forks: 44
• Open Issues: 16
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Exoskeleton

Exoskeleton is a faster and leaner Backbone for your HTML5 apps.

http://paulmillr.com/exoskeleton/

## What already works

All features you need for real-world app are working.

All software tests are passing: underscore

* Backbone: **with and without** Underscore

* [Chaplin](http://chaplinjs.org): **with and without** Underscore

Marionette and other popular plugins: WIP.

## Building

Default **and custom** builds:

    make # Will create exoskeleton.js

    make noutils # If you want to use Underscore

                 # and don't want to include `Exoskeleton.utils`.

    make min     # Minified version.

    # Custom, like this:

    cat lib/{header,events,collection,sync,history,footer}.js > exoskeleton.js

## Features

* Custom builds

* No hard dependencies on underscore

* Support for Bower and [Component(1)](https://github.com/component/component)

* AMD support

* Speed: blazing fast when used without jQuery with

  [Backbone.NativeView](https://github.com/akre54/Backbone.NativeView) and

  [Backbone.NativeAjax](https://github.com/akre54/Backbone.NativeAjax) (see

  the [wiki page](https://github.com/paulmillr/exoskeleton/wiki/Exoskeleton-without-jQuery)).

Also:

* All params are allowed for model attributes, for example `model.get('constructor')` [(jashkenas/backbone#1495)](https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/issues/1495)

* Event triggering on disposed objects is [20 times faster](http://jsperf.com/exoskeleton-events-vs-backbone-events)

## Differences

* Declaratively defined view events which point to

  non-existing handler functions are no longer tolerated / skipped.

  Early error is thrown instead.

* No hash-based routing. Only `pushState` urls.

* In no-underscore environment, there are no underscore-inspired

  Collection methods (each, pluck etc.), but there are ES5-inspired methods:

  `forEach, map, filter, some, every, reduce, reduceRight, indexOf, lastIndexOf`

  Also, no underscore-inspired Model methods at all.

* emulateHTTP and emulateJSON were removed