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Backbone.js Cookbook

By : Vadim Mirgorod
Book Image

Backbone.js Cookbook

By: Vadim Mirgorod

Overview of this book

<p>There is no doubt that the superior rendering power of HTML5, thin-to-thick client transition and REST style communication created a new era in web development, replacing the outdated approach based on browser plugin technologies. Backbone.js allows developers to write lightweight, modular, and scalable JavaScript applications.<br /><br />Backbone.js Cookbook contains a series of recipes that provide practical, step-by-step solutions to the problems that may occur during frontend application development using an MVC pattern. You will learn how to build Backbone applications utilizing the power of popular Backbone extensions and integrating your app with different third party libraries. You will also learn how to fulfill the requirements of the most challenging tasks.<br /><br />The first chapter of the book introduces you to the MVC paradigm and teaches you how to architect rich Internet applications operating with basic concepts of Backbone.js. During the reading of this book you will learn how to solve challenging problems leveraging Backbone objects such as models, collections, views, routers, and so on.</p> <p><br />You learn how to use forms, layouts, templating engines, and other Backbone extensions, which will help you to complete specific features of your application. You will understand how to bind a model to a DOM element. You will see how perfectly Backbone.js integrates with third party libraries and frameworks such as jQuery, Zepto, Underscore.js, Require.js, Mustache.js, Twitter Bootstrap, jQueryMobile, PhoneGap and many others. This book will guide you in how to optimize and test your applications, create your own Backbone extensions, and share them with the open source community.</p> <p><br />With the help of Backbone.js Cookbook, you will learn everything you need to know to create outstanding rich Internet applications using the JavaScript programming language.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Backbone.js Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Developing a mobile application with jQuery Mobile


jQuery Mobile is a useful HTML5/JavaScript framework for building mobile applications. It provides mobiles with look-and-feel components such as lists, buttons, toolbars, and dialogs. It is quite easy to create our own theme by customizing jQuery Mobile.

By default, all mobile pages can be stored in a single HTML file in different divs or are rendered on a fly. jQuery Mobile also allows us to use transition effects to switch between pages.

In this recipe, we are going to create a simple iOS-looking application with jQuery Mobile and Backbone.js, which allows users to view and create posts. Data is stored on https://mongolab.com/welcome/ and accessed via REST.

Our application will look like the following screenshot:

Getting ready...

Perform the following steps to get prepared for this recipe:

  1. Download the backbone-mongodb extension from its GitHub page, http://github.com/dealancer/backbone-mongodb/, and save it in lib/backbone-mongodb.js. We are...