[pedalpete]

I actually found that using backbone.js helped more with learning how to structure an app and about working with objects than writing vanilla javascript.

I was writing single-page applications just before jQuery was introduced, and I can tell you, my code was spaghetti because I didn't understand OO or functional design patterns. I didn't find jQuery to be a massive improvement in that, because I just linked data to DOM elements and everything was still all over the place.

Backbone forced me to write javascript in a cleaner way, even when I still didn't know what I was doing. I was breaking up my code into better methods and providing a better overall structure to my apps.

Now with Angular, I've taken that a step further to modularizing code, but I don't know how well I would have gotten on with Angular if I hadn't first learned so much from Backbone.