🆚 Backbone.js vs. Ionic

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Frontend framework
Frontend framework

About

Backbone.js is a JavaScript framework that adds structure to web applications by implementing the MVC pattern.

It offers models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, routers for URL routing, and native support for syncing with RESTful JSON interfaces via a very small (~8 KB) core.

Ionic is an open-source UI toolkit and framework for building native-quality apps for iOS, Android, and the web using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

It provides over 100 pre-designed UI components, built-in adaptive styling, native device access via Capacitor, hardware-accelerated transitions, dark mode, and tree-shakable builds.

Headquarters

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Frontend Frameworks › Rank #5
Frontend Frameworks › Rank #21
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #68

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Backbone.js frontend framework is 35 times more popular than Ionic.
Total websites

Market share

Frontend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Backbone.js is more popular than Ionic in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Italy
Australia
France
Spain
Canada
Netherlands
India

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Backbone.js is more popular than Ionic in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Entertainment
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Travel
Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
#2,419
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#1,765
#3,892
#6,832
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