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Mastering Backbone.js

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Mastering Backbone.js

Overview of this book

Backbone.js is a popular library to build single page applications used by many start-ups around the world because of its flexibility, robustness and simplicity. It allows you to bring your own tools and libraries to make amazing webapps with your own rules. However, due to its flexibility it is not always easy to create scalable applications with it. By learning the best practices and project organization you will be able to create maintainable and scalable web applications with Backbone.js. With this book you will start right from organizing your Backbone.js application to learn where to put each module and how to wire them. From organizing your code in a logical and physical way, you will go on to delimit view responsibilities and work with complex layouts. Synchronizing models in a two-way binding can be difficult and with sub resources attached it can be even worse. The next chapter will explain strategies for how to deal with these models. The following chapters will help you to manage module dependencies on your projects, explore strategies to upload files to a RESTful API and store information directly in the browser for using it with Backbone.js. After testing your application, you are ready to deploy it to your production environment. The final chapter will cover different flavors of authorization. The Backbone.js library can be difficult to master, but in this book you will get the necessary skill set to create applications with it, and you will be able to use any other library you want in your stack.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Backbone.js
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Heroku


Heroku is a PaaS, which means that you don't have to worry about the details of the server configuration where you are deploying your code, you only focus on your code; Heroku will do the difficult job with the infrastructure configuration.

Instead of using a shell to install, configure, and tune up your packages in order to run in production mode, you only have to edit a configuration file and publish your changes with the standard git push command.

Dynos

Heroku uses lightweight Linux containers that run a single command in order to run your projects in the Heroku platform. Heroku calls these containers Dynos. A Dyno can host your code and run it as a single process in an isolated Linux environment.

If you don't have an experience in Linux containers such as Docker, you can imagine a container to be like a small virtual machine without hardware emulation; a Linux container uses the same kernel as the host machine, it means that you don't need to emulate hardware:

Figure 9.1 Difference...