Rendr

Rendr is a small library that allows you to run your Backbone.js apps seamlessly on both the client and the server. Allow your web server to serve fully-formed HTML pages to any deep link of your app, while preserving the snappy feel of a traditional Backbone.js client-side MVC app. We believe there has to be a better way to build rich web apps today. In the last few years, we've seen more of the application moved to the client-side, with JavaScript representations of views, templates, and models. This enables us to build interactive, native-style single-page apps, but splitting your app into two distinct codebases (often using different languages for client and server) also creates challenges for performance, maintainability, and SEO. Rendr is intended to be a building block along the way to this envisioned future of web apps that can be run on either side of the wire according to the needs of your application.