In the previous chapters, we started writing code immediately. However, in the real world, you're not going to have me to tell you what to write from the beginning. You're going to have to plan your own application. So let's take a moment and do that now.

We want to build an application that will show us a list of past and upcoming events. An event will have a title, a description, and a date on which it occurs. This type of data can be nicely displayed in a table. We'll need to be able to create new events, but we also want to be able to edit and delete the existing events. We also want to periodically poll the server for changes to the set of events so that all the connected clients are up to date.

As this is a pretty basic application, that will be all. Now that we've clarified what it needs to do, we can start thinking in terms of Backbone components. Obviously, we'll need an Event model and an Events collection. The table will be an EventsView instance, and each...