Beginning Backbone.js

✍ Scribed by James Sugrue (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 290
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Beginning Backbone.js is your step-by-step guide to learning and using the Backbone.js library in your web projects. Backbone.js is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries among web developers, used to create modular, single-page web apps. This book takes you from downloading Backbone.js and its dependencies all the way to using more advanced libraries to structure your application architecture, and everything in between.

With a real-world, practical approach, you will learn how you can integrate Backbone.js into the center of your JavaScript stack, and create scalable applications. James Sugrue shows you how to implement all aspects of templating, work efficiently with RequireJS, and fully understand Grunt and all its plug-ins. Armed with this knowledge you'll be able to architect a continuous integration system that is key to real-world applications.

With the explosion of JavaScript-based applications on the web, the need for more structured approaches to code management is more important than ever. Backbone.js helps create applications that separate models from views, enabling developers to avoid spaghetti code. Beginning Backbone.js will gently guide you into this amazingly powerful library, and help you ramp up to building professional applications. Integrate Backbone.js into your work today with this indispensable book.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
An Introduction to Backbone.js....Pages 1-20
Getting Object-Oriented....Pages 21-38
Backbone Models and Collections....Pages 39-62
Backbone View and Templating Libraries....Pages 63-80
Routers and Events....Pages 81-94
From Start to Finish: A Complete App Example....Pages 95-126
The Backbone Ecosystem....Pages 127-150
Testing Your Backbone.js Application....Pages 151-178
Using Grunt for Your Build Process....Pages 179-202
Extending Backbone with Marionette and Thorax....Pages 203-230
Best Practices with Backbone....Pages 231-248
Creating a Manageable JavaScript Code Base....Pages 249-270
Back Matter....Pages 651-659

✦ Subjects

Computer Science, general