In this chapter, we'll take an introductory look at a mix of general-purpose and Backbone-specific third-party libraries, all of which can benefit you as a Backbone developer. In particular, we'll look at the following:
Dependency management tools Require.js and Bower
Table-generation tools Backbone Paginator and BackGrid
HTML templating tool Handlebars
Task automation tool Grunt
Alternate language CoffeeScript
General-purpose Backbone utility library BackSupport