Backbone.js Blueprints

Understand Backbone.js pragmatically by building seven different applications from scratch with this book and ebook

Overview

• Gain insights into the inner working of Backbone to leverage it better
• Exploit Backbone combined with the features of a Node powered server
• Learn how to build seven step-by-step frontend applications

In Detail

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.

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 effi cient frontend JavaScript code.

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 confi dence to write your own web applications from scratch.

What you will learn from this book

• Discover seven different ways to create your own frontend Backbone.js applications
• Create complex interfaces while keeping the code adaptable through Backbone Views
• Control your applications’ screens with simplicity through a Backbone router
• Utilize Marionette and Chaplin, the Backbone extension frameworks
• Build a Node.js server to manage the models your frontend application sends to it and requests from it
• Work with templates that manage the heavy lifting of your view
• Precompile your view for extra efficiency
• Use Backbone extension libraries to create effective applications with less coding

Approach

This book is an easy-to-follow guide which is full of examples that will take you through building seven very different web applications with Backbone. The code is broken down into manageable bites and then thoroughly explained.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Building a Simple Blog
Chapter 2: Building a Photo-sharing Application
Chapter 3: Building a Live Data Dashboard
Chapter 4: Building a Calendar
Chapter 5: Building a Chat Application
Chapter 6: Building a Podcast Application
Chapter 7: Building a Game