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Backbone.js Essentials

By : Jeremy Walker
Book Image

Backbone.js Essentials

By: Jeremy Walker

Overview of this book

<p>This book offers insight into creating and maintaining dynamic Backbone.js web applications. It delves into the the fundamentals of Backbone.js and helps you achieve mastery of the Backbone library.</p> <p>Starting with Models and Collections, you'll learn how to simplify client-side data management and easily transmit data to and from your server. Next, you'll learn to use Views and Routers to facilitate DOM manipulation and URL control so that your visitors can navigate your entire site without ever leaving the first HTML page. Finally, you'll learn how to combine those building blocks with other tools to achieve high-performance, testable, and maintainable web applications.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Backbone.js Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we learned about the great variety of tools available to the Backbone community. In particular, we looked at RequireJS and Bower for dependency management, Backbone Paginator and BackGrid for rendering paginated tables, and Handlebars for templating. We also looked at using Grunt for build management, CoffeeScript for an alternative syntax, and this author's own tool, BackSupport, for general-purpose solutions to many of the minor inconveniences of Backbone.

In the next chapter, we'll wrap things up by reviewing a summary of everything we've covered in this book. We'll also take a brief look at how the lessons learned can be applied to a real-world use case. Finally, we'll finish up with a look into the sources for learning even more about Backbone.