JavaScript MV* Framework - Making the Right Choice

JavaScript frameworks have been proliferating recently with a frightening rate. Just take a look at TodoMVC that provides dozens of MV* framework-specific implementation for a single task. It gives a felling how must be confused a developer making a choice for a framework.

Some time ago I even ran into a manifesto (bitworking.org/news/2014/05/zero_framework_manifesto) against JavaScript frameworks. I do not completely agree with the author, yet he has a point – it’s too many of them, too many of meta-languages to study that you as a web-developer may not need at all. Most of the frameworks contain plenty of code (AngularJS - 22K LOC, Ember.js – 43K LOC) and if you hope to know what is really going on in your application you have to study every line of this code. Let’s assume 3-5 of the trending frameworks are thoroughly tested by the communities, but what about others? Are you ready to spare days and weeks digging in someone’s code looking for traps and leaks in there?