Full Stack Web Development with Backbone.js

Learn how to build a full-stack application with Backbone.js by taking advantage of JavaScript modules, workflow automation, and Backbone’s interface building blocks. With this practical guide, author Patrick Mulder takes experienced backend developers and JavaScript programmers through the steps necessary to create a fully functional single-page application.

Backbone’s rich ecosystem of plugins makes applications easier to design and scale, but knowing which tools to use for your project can be tricky. How do you combine views and the data layer with Backbone, or serve and deploy JavaScript assets? You’ll not only learn the answers to these and many other questions; you’ll also discover Backbone’s vast number of use cases.

• Get started quickly by using a Backbone.js and Browserify
• Track state and organize data with Backbone models and collections
• Capture events from users by using views and manipulating the DOM
• Combine Backbone views with advanced HTML templates
• Use Backbone to browse remote data sources from an API
• Authenticate and authorize client-side interactions
• Build a backend API with Node.js and Restify
• Set up workflow automation with Bower, Grunt, Yeoman, and RequireJS

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The Bigger Picture
Chapter 2. Kick-Starting Application Development
Chapter 3. Building the User Interface
Chapter 4. Router Basics
Chapter 5. Transforming Collections
Chapter 6. Advanced View Templates
Chapter 7. Synchronizing State
Chapter 8. Basic API Concerns
Chapter 9. Authentication
Chapter 10. Automated Workflows
Chapter 11. From Backbone To Thorax
Appendix A. Developing with JavaScript