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Backbone.js Blueprints

By : Andrew Burgess
Book Image

Backbone.js Blueprints

By: Andrew Burgess

Overview of this book

<p>Backbone.js is an open source, JavaScript library that helps you to build sophisticated and structured web apps. It's important to have well-organized frontend code for easy maintenance and extendability. With the Backbone framework, you'll be able to build applications that are a breeze to manage.<br /><br />In this book, you will discover how to build seven complete web applications from scratch. You'll learn how to use all the components of the Backbone framework individually, and how to use them together to create fully featured applications. In addition, you'll also learn how Backbone thinks so you can leverage it to write the most efficient frontend JavaScript code.<br /><br />Through this book, you will learn to write good server-side JavaScript to support your frontend applications. This easy-to-follow guide is packed with projects, code, and solid explanations that will give you the confidence to write your own web applications from scratch.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Backbone.js Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Planning our application


Once again, we'll begin by planning our application. Our primary model will be the Event model. It has the same name as the model we created in the last chapter, but it's a bit different. This one will have a title, date, and start time and end time. We'll allow multiple events in one day, but events cannot overlap (because we can't be at two events at one time). Then, we'll also create a Calendar collection class to hold our events.

Our application will have two screens. The first will be a month view, in a standard, tabular, wall-calendar style. Then, a click on one of the days in that view will switch us to a day view, which will give the hour-by-hour breakdown of events for that day. This will also be the screen from which we can create new events.