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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have seen how to upload files to the server; this is not the only way to do it, but is the more extended and flexible approach. Another possible method is to serialize the image into base64 in the browser, then set the output string as an attribute in the model; when ten models are saved, the file encoded in base64 will be part of the payload. The server should decode the string and process the result as a file.

We saw how to decouple the view from the business logic. The view should only process DOM events and trigger business logic level events; then a controller can deal with blob objects instead of low-level DOM nodes. This approach helped us to move upload processing from the view to the model, which is the ideal way to do it.

Finally, we dealt with the creation process; we cannot create a resource and attach files at the same time. We should first create the resource and then send all the files to the server as needed.

In the next chapter, you will learn how...