🆚 Backbone.js vs. Knockout

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.

Knockout is a JavaScript MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) library that helps developers create rich, desktop-like user interfaces with JavaScript and HTML.

It features declarative bindings between data and UI, observable properties with automatic dependency tracking, computed observables, a built-in templating system, and efficient incremental DOM updates.

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Frontend Frameworks › Rank #5
Frontend Frameworks › Rank #7
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #68
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #77

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Backbone.js frontend framework is 1.3 times more popular than Knockout.
Total websites

Market share

Frontend Frameworks
JavaScript Libraries

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Backbone.js is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Italy, while Knockout is more popular in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Poland.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Netherlands
Italy
France
Australia
Spain
Canada
Brazil

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Backbone.js is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and Internet services, while Knockout is more commonly used on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and sports sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Sports
Education/Reference
Fashion/Beauty
Internet Services
Health
Real Estate
Blogs/Wiki

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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#2,419
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