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Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices

Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices

By : Swarnendu De
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Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices

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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
Acknowledgments
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Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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Reducing Boilerplate with Plugin Development
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Reducing Boilerplate with Plugin Development
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Basic components of Backbone.js
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Using Underscore.js
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Re-using code with extensions
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Understanding JavaScript mixins
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Summary
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Working with Views
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Working with Views
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Basic usage of views
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Partially updating a view
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Understanding nested views
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Working with templates
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Understanding automatic model-view data binding
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Using Marionette's ItemView, CollectionView, and CompositeView
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Using Layout Manager
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Summary
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Working with Models
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Working with Models
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Basic usage of models
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Validating the data
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Serializing models
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Understanding the relational data model
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Summary
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Working with Collections
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Working with Collections
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Basic usage of collections
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Sorting a collection
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Filtering a collection
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Understanding the collection of multiple model types
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Summary
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Routing Best Practices and Subrouting
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Routing Best Practices and Subrouting
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Working with routers
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Best practices for working with routers
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Subrouting – a key to organizing complex apps
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Summary
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Working with Events, Sync, and Storage
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Working with Events, Sync, and Storage
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Understanding custom events
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Using an event dispatcher
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Avoiding memory leaks with the listenTo() method
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Overriding the Backbone.sync() method
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Offline storage using the Backbone.LocalStorage adapter
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Organizing Backbone Applications – Structure, Optimize, and Deploy
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Organizing Backbone Applications – Structure, Optimize, and Deploy
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Understanding the application directory structure
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Working with Asynchronous Module Definition
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Creating application architecture
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Unit Test, Stub, Spy, and Mock Your App
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Unit Test, Stub, Spy, and Mock Your App
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Understanding why unit testing is important
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Testing with QUnit
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Using test spies, stubs, and mocks with SinonJS
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Books, Tutorials, and References
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Books, Tutorials, and References
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Books for reference
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Tutorials
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Precompiling Templates on the Server Side
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Precompiling Templates on the Server Side
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Organizing Templates with AMD and Require.js
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Organizing Templates with AMD and Require.js
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Precompiling with the requirejs-tpl plugin
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Index
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Index

Chapter 8. Unit Test, Stub, Spy, and Mock Your App

Majority of developers believe that testing is essential, but in reality only a few of them actually go for test-driven development. Testing falls under one of the best practices of the JavaScript development process. Hence, we decided to include a chapter on how to unit test Backbone-based applications.

A number of popular testing libraries, such as QUnit, Jasmine, Mocha, and SinonJS, are available to unit test JavaScript applications. In this chapter, we are going to show you how to test with QUnit, the simplest yet robust testing platform, which is pretty easy to learn as well. In the latter part, we will look into SinonJS to learn test spies, stubs, and mocks. Together, QUnit and SinonJS create a strong tool to test every part of your app. The main points to be discussed in this chapter are as follows:

  • Why unit testing is important: Testing is a habit. Continuing this along with development may take some extra time initially, but it is...

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