Exoskeleton NPM

Exoskeleton

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

http://exosjs.com

What already works

All features you need for real-world app are working. All software tests are passing: (libs = underscore and jquery)

Backbone: with and without libs
Chaplin: with and without libs

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 jQuery
             # 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 or jquery
Support for Bower and Component(1)
AMD support
Speed: blazing fast when used without jQuery.

Also:

Router with query string support
All params are allowed for model attributes, for example model.get('constructor') (jashkenas/backbone#1495)
Event triggering on disposed objects is 20 times faster

Differences

When jQuery is not used, you must use event.delegateTarget instead of event.currentTarget for event delegation. This is because currentTarget is not overridable on native non-jQuery events.
Declaratively defined view events which point to non-existing handler functions are no longer tolerated / skipped. Early error is thrown instead.
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