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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

Chapter 2. Object-Oriented JavaScript with Backbone Classes

In this chapter, we will explore the following topics:

  • The differences between JavaScript's class system and the class systems of traditional object-oriented languages

  • How new, this, and prototype enable JavaScript's class system

  • Extend, Backbone's much easier mechanism for creating subclasses

  • Ways to take advantage of Underscore, which (like jQuery) is one of Backbone's dependencies