# tbranyen/backbone.layoutmanager

UNMAINTAINED 7/31/18: A layout and template manager for Backbone applications.

Repository: https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone.layoutmanager
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/backbonelayoutmanager
Homepage: https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone.layoutmanager/wiki
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2019-03-12T17:44:15+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5413, "days_push": 2731, "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 1665, forks 171 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:19.051924+00:00)

## What it is
A layout and template manager library for Backbone.js applications that provides a logical foundation for assembling layouts and views. It is adaptive and configurable, tested in both browser and Node.js environments, but has been explicitly unmaintained since July 2018.

## Use cases
- manage nested views in a backbone app
- render templates within backbone layouts
- structure single-page application layouts with backbone
- swap template engines in a backbone project
- maintain a legacy backbone application using layoutmanager

## When to choose
- you are maintaining an existing Backbone application that already depends on LayoutManager
- you need a proven layout abstraction for a legacy Backbone codebase

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new project - Backbone and this library are both legacy
- you need actively maintained software with security updates
- you use a modern frontend framework like React or Vue

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: templating, ui-components, state-management
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: backbone, layout-manager, views, unmaintained, javascript, nodejs

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

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:19.051924+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 2026-08-30T03:44:27.459516+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone.layoutmanager (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:19.051924+00:00, sha 0be199bff60f)
  - homepage: https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone.layoutmanager/wiki (fetched 2026-08-29T11:16:54.053762+00:00, sha 7bdbb6ed741d)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/backbone.layoutmanager (fetched 2026-08-29T11:16:54.063037+00:00, sha aa7fe4bf87b6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.