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Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices

By : Swarnendu De

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Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices

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By: Swarnendu De

Overview of this book

Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices

Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices

Credits

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Preface

Free Chapter

Reducing Boilerplate with Plugin Development

Reducing Boilerplate with Plugin Development

Basic components of Backbone.js

Using Underscore.js

Re-using code with extensions

Understanding JavaScript mixins

Summary

Working with Views

Working with Views

Basic usage of views

Partially updating a view

Understanding nested views

Working with templates

Understanding automatic model-view data binding

Using Marionette's ItemView, CollectionView, and CompositeView

Using Layout Manager

Summary

Working with Models

Working with Models

Basic usage of models

Validating the data

Serializing models

Understanding the relational data model

Summary

Working with Collections

Working with Collections

Basic usage of collections

Sorting a collection

Filtering a collection

Understanding the collection of multiple model types

Summary

Routing Best Practices and Subrouting

Routing Best Practices and Subrouting

Working with routers

Best practices for working with routers

Subrouting – a key to organizing complex apps

Summary

Working with Events, Sync, and Storage

Working with Events, Sync, and Storage

Understanding custom events

Using an event dispatcher

Avoiding memory leaks with the listenTo() method

Overriding the Backbone.sync() method

Offline storage using the Backbone.LocalStorage adapter

Summary

Organizing Backbone Applications – Structure, Optimize, and Deploy

Organizing Backbone Applications – Structure, Optimize, and Deploy

Understanding the application directory structure

Working with Asynchronous Module Definition

Creating application architecture

Summary

Unit Test, Stub, Spy, and Mock Your App

Unit Test, Stub, Spy, and Mock Your App

Understanding why unit testing is important

Testing with QUnit

Using test spies, stubs, and mocks with SinonJS

Summary

Books, Tutorials, and References

Books, Tutorials, and References

Books for reference

Tutorials

Precompiling Templates on the Server Side

Precompiling Templates on the Server Side

Organizing Templates with AMD and Require.js

Organizing Templates with AMD and Require.js

Precompiling with the requirejs-tpl plugin

Index

Index

Summary

We have included a number of books and tutorials related to QUnit and SinonJS in the Appendix A, Books, Tutorials, and References. You can follow them to get a more detailed idea about these two technologies.

A few testing concepts were described in this chapter. You got an idea about the power of QUnit and SinonJS, and how to use them extensively to unit test your JavaScript application. Though that barely scratches the surface, we never intended to cover everything about testing in this book either. We just tried to make you aware of the fact that testing is an absolutely important part of the application development process, and you should make it a habit to write test cases whenever you develop. It will make your code more structured, flexible, and easier to use for your teammates.

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