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Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices

By : Swarnendu De
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Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices

By: Swarnendu De

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Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices
Swarnendu De
Jan, 2014 | 174 pages
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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
1
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
2
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
3
Working with Models
Working with Models
Basic usage of models
Validating the data
Serializing models
Understanding the relational data model
Summary
4
Working with Collections
Working with Collections
Basic usage of collections
Sorting a collection
Filtering a collection
Understanding the collection of multiple model types
Summary
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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

Books for reference

A large number of books on Backbone.js are available for beginners and advanced-level developers. However, the following three books, I believe, are a must-have for any Backbone.js developer:

  • Developing Backbone.js Applications, Addy Osmani: This is the best book if you are a beginner and want to start learning Backbone.js. It covers almost everything about Backbone.js. Addy has an online version of the book too—you can find it in the following Tutorials section.

  • Building Backbone Plugins, Derick Bailey: This is an excellent book where Derick talks about plugin development, the different problems with Backbone.js components, and their solutions.

  • Backbone.Marionette.js: A Gentle Introduction, David Sulc: This book discusses the different components of the Backbone.Marionette extension along with detailed examples.

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