Backbone.js, Underscore.js and why they matter for WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress is transforming and you may not even know it. The project's largely been a PHP driven framework. According to Github, the code itself is around 85% PHP and 15% JS in WordPress 3.5. In the future, JavaScript is likely to make up a majority of the project's code. And Backbone.js and Underscore.js have a big part of that shift. We should get ready for the change, and learn how to use these new tools.
