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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 Model class. You learned how to use get and set to change attributes, how to use on and off to listen for events, and how to use fetch, save, and destroy to exchange data with a remote server. You also learned how you can customize Backbone to handle your server's API by modifying the url, urlRoot, and idAttribute properties and how to handle differently structured data with parse and toJSON.

In the next chapter, we'll take a look at Backbone's other data class, Collection. Collections allow you to store groups of Models together, and (just like Models) they allow you to listen for changes and send or retrieve data to/from the server.