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Backbone.js Cookbook

By : Vadim Mirgorod
Book Image

Backbone.js Cookbook

By: Vadim Mirgorod

Overview of this book

<p>There is no doubt that the superior rendering power of HTML5, thin-to-thick client transition and REST style communication created a new era in web development, replacing the outdated approach based on browser plugin technologies. Backbone.js allows developers to write lightweight, modular, and scalable JavaScript applications.<br /><br />Backbone.js Cookbook contains a series of recipes that provide practical, step-by-step solutions to the problems that may occur during frontend application development using an MVC pattern. You will learn how to build Backbone applications utilizing the power of popular Backbone extensions and integrating your app with different third party libraries. You will also learn how to fulfill the requirements of the most challenging tasks.<br /><br />The first chapter of the book introduces you to the MVC paradigm and teaches you how to architect rich Internet applications operating with basic concepts of Backbone.js. During the reading of this book you will learn how to solve challenging problems leveraging Backbone objects such as models, collections, views, routers, and so on.</p> <p><br />You learn how to use forms, layouts, templating engines, and other Backbone extensions, which will help you to complete specific features of your application. You will understand how to bind a model to a DOM element. You will see how perfectly Backbone.js integrates with third party libraries and frameworks such as jQuery, Zepto, Underscore.js, Require.js, Mustache.js, Twitter Bootstrap, jQueryMobile, PhoneGap and many others. This book will guide you in how to optimize and test your applications, create your own Backbone extensions, and share them with the open source community.</p> <p><br />With the help of Backbone.js Cookbook, you will learn everything you need to know to create outstanding rich Internet applications using the JavaScript programming language.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Backbone.js Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Customizing a form with the Bootstrap framework


Default backbone-form's styles look pretty boring, and we may want to replace them with something cool like Bootstrap. In this case, our form will look much better, as shown in the following screenshot:

Here we also use a List element (aka editor) to allow the user to input invoice item details. When user clicks on the Add button, the following popup is generated and shown to the user:

Getting ready

Follow these steps to be prepared to use Bootstrap.js:

  1. Download the Bootstrap framework archive from its GitHub page at http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap, and extract it into the lib folder of the application.

  2. Remove the default.css style's reference from index.html.

  3. Include links to the Bootstrap files into index.html.

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="lib/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css" />
    
    <script src="lib/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.js"></script>
  4. Include links to the Backbone.Forms extension, List editor, Bootstrap modal adapter, Bootstrap templates...