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backbone vs ember vs angular on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, angular leads backbone vs ember vs angular with 40,990 mentions to backbone’s 21,270, peaking in Sep 2016.

Mention-over-time for backbone vs ember vs angular, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

backbone21,270 mentions, peak Mar 2013ember9,810 mentions, peak Mar 2013angular40,990 mentions, peak Sep 2016
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How the lead changed hands

The front-end MVC wars: Backbone.js is the first to give the browser structure ~2011, then Ember and Angular escalate to full frameworks 2013–14, the fight that set up React.

The stories behind each line

Top “backbone” stories
  1. EFF in Court to Argue NSA Collection from Internet Backbone Is Unconstitutional 808 points · 2014
  2. Launch HN: Necto (YC W18) – ISP Starter Kit 404 points · 2018
  3. Announcing Backbone.js 1.0 396 points · 2013
  4. Step by step from jQuery to Backbone 353 points · 2012
Top “ember” stories
  1. "Getting started with Ember.Js is easy." - No it isn't 391 points · 2013
  2. Ember's Glimmer Engine 378 points · 2015
  3. Ember.js 2.0 Released 376 points · 2015
  4. Ember.js 1.0 Released 311 points · 2013
Top “angular” stories
  1. Angular 2 Final Released 838 points · 2016
  2. 2 years with Angular 445 points · 2014
  3. Show HN: Material Dashboard – Free Admin for Bootstrap 4, React, Angular, Vue.js 436 points · 2018
  4. Angular 2: Built on TypeScript 426 points · 2015

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