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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 learned how to document Backbone JavaScript code and what specific areas to focus on when doing so. We explored three different documentation options—non-documentation, simple documentation, and robust documentation—and considered two popular tools for generating robust documentation: JSDoc, and Docco.

In the next chapter, we'll look at how to test your Backbone code. In particular, we'll explore the popular test running frameworks QUnit and Mocha, as well as the Sinon library for creating spies, stubs, and mocks.