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I've been looking into several of the JavaScript MVC Frameworks (Backbone.js, Spine, SproutCore,etc.) and it seems to me that all of these are designed to act as 'single-page' applications. All of the examples I see have an index page that act as a front controller, and use # or #! style URLs for different pages, and handle the entire rendering of the page.

I have several projects where I would like to use a more 'traditional' style of URLs, and having more structured JavaScript to handle some of the more complicated parts of the application. are JS MVC frameworks the answer here, or should I be looking for something different?

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JavaScript MVC is just a code organization pattern.

They happen to work well with SPA but they can be used in normal applications.

However you don't actually need a JS MVC framework. You can just write modular JavaScript using some kind module loading strategy.

As long as you separate modules into separate objects / functions / units the code should be structured and clean.

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  • I believe the Steal framework can help out with the module loading
    – Christian Horsdal
    Dec 9, 2011 at 20:21
  • Steal/RequireJS, scripts and namespaces, and script packagers and dependency managers are all popular module loading strategies. I would actually recommend against steal if your not using javascriptmvc.
    – Raynos
    Dec 9, 2011 at 20:24
  • Where does the business logic sit in a modular pattern? Would it be in it's own main logic module which is loaded in on application init?
    – Ian Jamieson
    Jan 24, 2015 at 1:16

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