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Backbone.js Blueprints

By : Andrew Burgess
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Backbone.js Blueprints

By: Andrew Burgess

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<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>

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Backbone.js Blueprints
Andrew Burgess
May, 2014 | 256 pages
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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Backbone.js Blueprints
Backbone.js Blueprints
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Building a Simple Blog
Building a Simple Blog
Setting up the application
Starting with the server
Creating the template
Adding the public folder
Beginning the Backbone code
Performing a quick and dirty test
Writing some views
Using our views
Creating a router
Viewing a post
Creating new posts
Adding comments
Summary
2
Building a Photo-sharing Application
Building a Photo-sharing Application
Creating user accounts
Creating our application navigation
Uploading photos
Sending photos from the server to the client
Creating profile pages
Creating the individual photo page
Following users
Displaying a followed user's photos
Summary
3
Building a Live Data Dashboard
Building a Live Data Dashboard
Planning our application
Setting up precompiled templates
Creating the models
Creating controls
Starting the router
Building the CreateEventView class
Creating the events table
Deleting a record
Editing event records
Making it live
Sorting events
Summary
4
Building a Calendar
Building a Calendar
Planning our application
Creating the model and collection
Creating the month view
Creating the individual day screen
Writing the server code
Summary
5
Building a Chat Application
Building a Chat Application
Outlining the application
Setting up the application
Preparing our template
A word about Socket.IO
Creating modules
Creating users
Building the layout
Starting the router
Letting users join the fun
Joining a room
Building the chat module
Back to the controller
Adding some other routes
Writing CSS
Summary
6
Building a Podcast Application
Building a Podcast Application
What are we building?
Building user accounts
Subscribing to and storing podcasts
Preparing index.ejs
Creating our models and collections
Building the navigation
Displaying podcasts
Creating a layout
Beginning the router
Subscribing to new podcasts
Displaying the list of episodes
Displaying episodes
Summary
7
Building a Game
Building a Game
What are we building?
User accounts
Templates
Creating the game data
Writing the models
Writing the tokens view
Views of the clues
Creating the guess view
Building the info view
Wrapping our views in a GameView class
Starting the router
Creating the home view
Building a scoreboard
Writing the navigation
Adding new words
Summary
Index
Index

About the Reviewers

Marc D. Bodley is a passionate User Experience Engineer and a jack-of-all-trades developer with over eight years of experience within JavaScript and frontend technologies. He is excited to see JavaScript being adopted as more of a mainstream development language and not just an accessory to development. He is equally excited to see the structure and thought process of more conventional, strongly typed languages being applied to JavaScript to bring order to what is potentially a large and disorganized JS-driven code base. He has worked on large- and small-scale applications for a range of organizations, from Belk.com, to start-up style data-heavy applications, and continues to look for, learn, and enforce JavaScript and programming best practices. He is grateful to be a contributor towards this effort.

Ivano Malavolta is postdoctoral researcher at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of L'Aquila, Italy. Currently, his research activity is positioned in three main fields: software architecture, Model-Driven Engineering, and mobile-enabled systems. He has co-authored scientific publications in international journals, and international conferences, and workshops in using these themes. He is a program committee member and reviewer of international conferences and journals in his fields of interest. Ivano is an instructor at the University of L'Aquila, and he is teaching these topics in dedicated courses for both the Bachelor's and Master's degree students.

He is a strong advocate of applying academic research results in real scenarios, and he is working on projects that have been awarded as the most innovative solutions in both national and international venues. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE.

Lorenzo Pisani is a software engineer with over a decade of experience in developing applications with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript. As a huge advocate of open source software, he publishes just about everything he builds, outside of work, to his GitHub profile (https://github.com/Zeelot) for others to use and learn from.

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