🆚 Backbone.js vs. Stimulus

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Backbone.js is five times more popular than Stimulus.
🌎 Backbone.js is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Stimulus is more popular in the Czech Republic, El Salvador, and Monaco.

Backbone.js

Stimulus

Type

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.

Stimulus is a JavaScript framework designed to enhance static or server-rendered HTML by connecting JavaScript controller classes to DOM elements via data attributes.

It monitors changes in the DOM, supports event handling through HTML annotations, lets you refer to internal elements via targets, and stores state in HTML attributes rather than using a virtual DOM or heavy rendering.

Headquarters

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Website

backbonejs.org #3,750,276

stimulus.hotwired.dev

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Backbone.js frontend framework is 5 times more popular than Stimulus.

Total websites

Market share

Frontend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Backbone.js is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Stimulus is more popular in the Czech Republic, El Salvador, and Monaco.

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