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Backbone.js Blueprints

By : Andrew Burgess
Book Image

Backbone.js Blueprints

By: Andrew Burgess

Overview of this book

<p>Backbone.js is an open source, JavaScript library that helps you to build sophisticated and structured web apps. It's important to have well-organized frontend code for easy maintenance and extendability. With the Backbone framework, you'll be able to build applications that are a breeze to manage.<br /><br />In this book, you will discover how to build seven complete web applications from scratch. You'll learn how to use all the components of the Backbone framework individually, and how to use them together to create fully featured applications. In addition, you'll also learn how Backbone thinks so you can leverage it to write the most efficient frontend JavaScript code.<br /><br />Through this book, you will learn to write good server-side JavaScript to support your frontend applications. This easy-to-follow guide is packed with projects, code, and solid explanations that will give you the confidence to write your own web applications from scratch.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Backbone.js Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Displaying episodes


Individual episodes will be displayed in the EpisodeView class. Let's start with the template:

<script type='text/template' id='episodeView'>
  <div class='btn-group btn-tools'>
    <button id='markOne' class="btn btn-default">Mark As Listened</button>
  </div>
  <div class="panel panel-default">
    <div class="panel-body">
      <h1>{{title}}</h1>
      <p>
        <strong>Duration</strong>: {{duration}}
        <strong>Date</strong>: {{pubDate}} 
      </p> 
      <audio controls='true' src="{{audio}}"></audio>
      {{description}}
    </div>
  </div>
</script>

We start with some tools at the top: a Mark As Listened button. Then, we show the details for the episode: title, duration, and date. Next comes the audio element; this makes it really easy for users to listen to the podcast right in our application. In our case, we only have a single audio...