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Can you elaborate on why knockout is old and dated? It's HTML and JS, just like the others.

And compared to the bloat that is angular and especially ember, I find knockout strikes with simplicity and 'keeping-it-simple'.

It's not. And not everything should be architected as a SPA, but more likely multiple page SPAs. Your users probably don't go to every module of a large app with the same frequency...

Knockout + Backbone Router is all you really need. It will save massive headaches from trying to shoe horn something in to angular or ember.

Or you can just wire up different libraries as needed and forgo the usage of a entire framework...