There's several showstoppers for me. If you figure out how to fix them, you'll have my business:
1). Server side validation. If I can't prevent a CSRF attack, it can't be the basis of my app/website.
2). SEO. Figure out a way to serve deep links using the root index.html transparently in a way that is undetectable to the client side (search engines)
3). Build in require.js or leverage some other technology to make backbone app codebases manageable yet compressed and performant in the production environment.
If you can solve 2 and 3, you solve one of the biggest issues I have when writing backbone apps -- I'm often writing my code twice, often in two separate languages, which isn't DRY and feels like a waste of the efficiencies gained by backbone.
If you figure this out, Backbone isn't just for web apps anymore -- it's for any website.
There's several showstoppers for me. If you figure out how to fix them, you'll have my business:
1). Server side validation. If I can't prevent a CSRF attack, it can't be the basis of my app/website.
2). SEO. Figure out a way to serve deep links using the root index.html transparently in a way that is undetectable to the client side (search engines)
3). Build in require.js or leverage some other technology to make backbone app codebases manageable yet compressed and performant in the production environment.
If you can solve 2 and 3, you solve one of the biggest issues I have when writing backbone apps -- I'm often writing my code twice, often in two separate languages, which isn't DRY and feels like a waste of the efficiencies gained by backbone.
If you figure this out, Backbone isn't just for web apps anymore -- it's for any website.