# tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate

A workflow for building Backbone applications.

Repository: https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/backbone-boilerplate
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2017-07-09T21:47:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5389, "days_push": 3342, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4445, forks 475 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:50.378898+00:00)

## What it is
An opinionated boilerplate and workflow for building Backbone.js web applications, bundling Backbone, jQuery, Lodash, Grunt, Babel, and Mocha/Karma with a logical project structure and build process. It provides a starting template rather than a runtime library.

## Use cases
- scaffold a new Backbone.js single-page application
- set up a Grunt build workflow for a frontend project
- start a web app with Backbone, jQuery, and Lodash preconfigured
- get a ready-made project structure with testing via Karma and Mocha
- bootstrap an ES6/Babel frontend project with a dev server

## When to choose
- you are starting a legacy Backbone.js project and want an opinionated structure
- you want a preconfigured Grunt-based build and test pipeline for a small frontend app

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new project with a modern framework like React, Vue, or Svelte
- you need actively maintained tooling - the project has not been updated since 2017
- you prefer webpack, Vite, or modern build tooling over Grunt

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: abandoned
- function: build-tool, web-framework, testing
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: backbone, boilerplate, grunt, javascript, scaffolding, starter-template, boilerplate, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:50.378898+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:31:26.088654+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:50.378898+00:00, sha daa797496aa6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.