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Mastering Backbone.js

By : Abiee Echamea
Book Image

Mastering Backbone.js

By: Abiee Echamea

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 (12 chapters)
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Index

Summary

In this chapter, we saw how to run a Node application in the Heroku platform and in a bare metal or virtual machine server with Linux. These two methods to deploy Node applications are simple; however, they are the base for more complex deployments. You can make deployments on Docker containers, for instance. With Docker, you will need to know how to install your application in a fresh Linux installation as we did, and then, manage containers as a process like Heroku does.

In this chapter, we don't see many things related to Backbone; however, if you have a Backbone application and it is backed by Node, you probably want to put your code in production. In this chapter, we have seen how to put the output of the distribution files in a production server.