> BUT rails style frameworks are still incredibly important for 1 huge reason - search engines.
A project I toyed with a while ago, but never finished (because I don't need it right now), was an app server that can render and serve Backbone views on the server, for search engines and to speed up the first page load (after which most clients would switch to client-side rendering.) See https://github.com/stdbrouw/backbone-express. https://github.com/developmentseed/bones does something similar. There's a ton of reasons why people would want to stick with Rails or another server-side framework, but searchability isn't necessarily the big problem.
A project I toyed with a while ago, but never finished (because I don't need it right now), was an app server that can render and serve Backbone views on the server, for search engines and to speed up the first page load (after which most clients would switch to client-side rendering.) See https://github.com/stdbrouw/backbone-express. https://github.com/developmentseed/bones does something similar. There's a ton of reasons why people would want to stick with Rails or another server-side framework, but searchability isn't necessarily the big problem.