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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 explored Backbone's Collection class. You learned how to add and remove Models and Model attributes, how to use the on and off methods to listen for events, how to control the sorting and indexing of Collections, and how to use fetch and save to exchange data with a remote server. We also examined the many Underscore methods of a Collection and how they can be used to realize the full power of a Collection.

In the next chapter, we'll take a look at Backbone's View class. Views allow you to render an HTML page, or a subset of one, using the data from the Models and Collections that we've already covered.