We didn't try to re-invent the wheel. Durandal is built on libs you know and love like jQuery, Knockout and RequireJS. There's little to learn and building apps feels comfortable and familiar. Dive in and enjoy.
MVC? MVP? MVVM? Yes. Messaging, navigation, modals? Check. Durandal has the features you need to build whatever apps you can imagine; the apps of today and of tomorrow. Let your creativity soar.
Building an Android phone app? An enterprise LOB targeted at Windows? A web gaming platform? No matter how large or small the app, it's effortless with Durandal....and we give you the tools to develop on any platform, for any platform.
Durandal is built to handle the plumbing and makes it easier for me to focus on building rich webs apps with JavaScript faster. Only when you've written SPA's without Durandal do you realize how much it saves you!
John Papa, Author & Microsoft Regional Director
Durandal is the missing piece in my Knockout SPA toolkit. It handles the infrastructure and lets me focus on delivering functionality. Powerful, yet lightweight, pluggable and built on proven patterns from WPF/Silverlight development.
Hans Fjällemark, Freelancing HTML5 consultant - Tellurian Interactive
Durandal brings capabilities from Caliburn.Micro to JavaScript clients that we sorely missed. Love the screen management and convention-based composition of Views and ViewModels.
Ward Bell, V.P. of Technology - IdeaBlade
Rob set high standards with Caliburn.Micro... When we develop WPF/Silverlight applications using it, we get better code organization, flexibility and, ultimately, higher code quality and team productivity. He's done it again with Durandal - which brings all of the same qualities to the world of HTML5 applications. Amazing work!
Srdjan Strbanovic, CTO - Cignium Technologies