I ran a start-up for several months and we moved from backbone to Ember in December after concluding that Ember was positioning themselves to provide a much more powerful suite of primitives for the type of apps we were targeting.
I have now joined another startup and am using Ember to build a somewhat ambitious web application and so far I am on cloud9 wrt the experience. I think the recent additions of the formalized Components api, the new much more flexible Router, and the prevailing ease of preserving URLs makes Ember a pretty obvious win for a certain class of applications.
As a quick comparison, I built a small embedded application in both backbone (as idiomatic as possible) and Ember and the BB version was 3x the LOC and much more difficult to reason about.
Steve
I have now joined another startup and am using Ember to build a somewhat ambitious web application and so far I am on cloud9 wrt the experience. I think the recent additions of the formalized Components api, the new much more flexible Router, and the prevailing ease of preserving URLs makes Ember a pretty obvious win for a certain class of applications.
As a quick comparison, I built a small embedded application in both backbone (as idiomatic as possible) and Ember and the BB version was 3x the LOC and much more difficult to reason about.
Steve