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Mastering Backbone.js

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Mastering Backbone.js

Overview of this book

Backbone.js is a popular library to build single page applications used by many start-ups around the world because of its flexibility, robustness and simplicity. It allows you to bring your own tools and libraries to make amazing webapps with your own rules. However, due to its flexibility it is not always easy to create scalable applications with it. By learning the best practices and project organization you will be able to create maintainable and scalable web applications with Backbone.js. With this book you will start right from organizing your Backbone.js application to learn where to put each module and how to wire them. From organizing your code in a logical and physical way, you will go on to delimit view responsibilities and work with complex layouts. Synchronizing models in a two-way binding can be difficult and with sub resources attached it can be even worse. The next chapter will explain strategies for how to deal with these models. The following chapters will help you to manage module dependencies on your projects, explore strategies to upload files to a RESTful API and store information directly in the browser for using it with Backbone.js. After testing your application, you are ready to deploy it to your production environment. The final chapter will cover different flavors of authorization. The Backbone.js library can be difficult to master, but in this book you will get the necessary skill set to create applications with it, and you will be able to use any other library you want in your stack.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Backbone.js
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Putting it all together


We have created four simple but powerful new views types that can be used easily on projects, minimizing the effort and making less redundant code. In the next section, we will convert our contacts project into a more complex project, using what we have learned here:

Figure 2.4: Application root layout

Our application will have a root layout with three sections:

  • Header – Will contain a navigation bar

  • Footer – Copyright information

  • Main – This element shows all sub-applications on demand

This layout description is not a Layout object; instead, it describes the HTM root content:

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<html lang="">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>mastering backbone design</title>
    <meta name="description" content="">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
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