We will start our exploration of TypeScript frameworks by building the sample application in Backbone. While it can be argued that Backbone is not a TypeScript framework per se, we have already seen how it can be used naturally with the TypeScript language syntax. Backbone is also one of the oldest frameworks around, and it is small, light, and extremely fast.

Backbone, however, requires writing a little more code than most frameworks, as it is really the bare-bones of an MVC framework. When working with Backbone, you will need to call rendering functions yourself, and also attach rendered HTML to the DOM tree manually.

To make Backbone development a little easier, the Marionette framework was developed on top of the Backbone framework, in order to simplify and remove a lot of this repetitive code. In fact, there are a number of frameworks that use Backbone as the...