Sallar Kaboli / Exploring JavaScript & Things.

I started refactoring Buttercup’s UI about 8 months ago I had no idea how difficult it’s going to be. Why I Refactored Back in 2015 when Perry and I started making Buttercup, I decided to use BackboneJS for coding the front-end part of things, and it went well for a while. But I quickly realized BackboneJS is not suitable for what Buttercup wants to achieve. Backbone does not scale well in large applications IMO. To name a few issues we had: Very manual way of rendering and re-rendering. Rendering in BackboneJS is done by replacing the dom contents manually using a jQuery method ($(...).htm

It’s been couple of months that Perry and I have been working on our own password manager called Buttercup. We released the very first alpha version today, and you can get it from Github now. Mac and Linux versions are ready at the time of writing this post and a Windows version is underway. What’s Buttercup The existing solutions out there are quite good, but not exactly what we wanted. We needed a free, well-made, open-source and secure password management solution, so we decided to build our own. We put all of our trust in Javascript and started coding it in Javascript using NodeJS and El