# walmartlabs/thorax

Strengthening your Backbone

Repository: https://github.com/walmartlabs/thorax
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/thorax
Homepage: http://thoraxjs.org/
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2021-03-18T21:32:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5446, "days_push": 1994, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1315, forks 117 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:20.676164+00:00)

## What it is
Thorax is an opinionated JavaScript framework combining Backbone and Handlebars for building large-scale web applications, with views, data binding, and a Yeoman generator. It was maintained by Walmart Labs and is now archived and unsupported.

## Use cases
- build large-scale backbone web applications
- data binding with handlebars templates
- structure a backbone.js app with views and collections
- scaffold a backbone app with yeoman

## When to choose
- you are maintaining a legacy Backbone + Handlebars codebase already using Thorax

## When to avoid
- starting a new web project
- you need maintained software with security updates
- you want modern frontend tooling

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: abandoned
- function: frontend-framework, templating, ui-components
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: backbone, handlebars, mvvm, archived, walmartlabs, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- walmartlabs/thorax (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:20.676164+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 2026-08-30T04:48:43.744896+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/walmartlabs/thorax (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:20.676164+00:00, sha a5d6eff6f7fe)
  - homepage: http://thoraxjs.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:07:31.084026+00:00, sha 5f74d0175326)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/thorax (fetched 2026-08-29T12:07:31.093103+00:00, sha 8c4dc0d98001)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.