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The Flex community (before steve jobs killed it) had the same issues - every week a new client-side framework would come out and try to re-define client-side MVC.

The best framework I found back then was RobotLegs, which was an MVC(s) framework which I loved because it was more of a set of patterns you followed. Dijon.js https://github.com/creynders/dijon is a port of Robotlegs to JS which seems cool. It just provides dependency injection and leaves the MVC part up to you.

Flux seems like the way to go, IMHO. It is more of a set of patterns rather than a "framework". It's a lot to grok at first though.

I'd look at Fluxor http://fluxxor.com/, or Reflux https://github.com/spoike/refluxjs, which both seem to make Flux a bit simpler.

(I do agree with you that the state of frameworks now is ridiculous)