Backbone Tutorials
Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced
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Backbone.js has had unrivaled success and will be a crucial tool in modern web development. This book aims to get developers up to speed with single page web application development using Backbone.js as a foundation.
Author
About the Author
Thomas Davis
Hi everybody, I'm a front end web developer who dips into server side but usually only concerned with the restful resources. I love working on open source projects and love sharing things I learn as it consolidates my knowledge. I also study philosophy part time as one of my greater interest.
- Founder of BackboneTutorials.com
- Co-Founder of Cdnjs.com
- Founder of Jsonresume.org
- Founder of KaleiStyleguide.com
Episode 22
An Interview with Thomas Davis
Contents
Table of Contents
- Why do you need Backbone.js?
- Why single page applications are the future
- So how does Backbone.js help?
- Other frameworks
- Contributors
- What is a view?
- The “el” property
- Loading a template
- Listening for events
- Tips and Tricks
- Relevant Links
- Contributors
- What is a model?
- Setting attributes
- Getting attributes
- Setting model defaults
- Manipulating model attributes
- Listening for changes to the model
- Interacting with the server
- Creating a new model
- Getting a model
- Updating a model
- Deleting a model
- Tips and Tricks
- Contributors
- What is a collection?
- Building a collection
- What is a router?
- Dynamic Routing
- Dynamic Routing Cont. “:params” and “*splats”
- Relevant Links
- Contributors
- Organizing your application using Modules (require.js)
- What is AMD?
- Why Require.js?
- Getting started
- Example File Structure
- Bootstrapping your application
- What does the bootstrap look like?
- How should we lay out external scripts?
- A boiler plate module
- App.js Building our applications main module
- Modularizing a Backbone View
- Modularizing a Collection, Model and View
- Conclusion
- Relevant Links
- Contributors
- Lightweight Infinite Scrolling using Twitter API
- Getting started
- The Twitter Collection
- Setting up the View
- The widget template
- Conclusion
- Simple example - Node.js, Restify, MongoDb and Mongoose
- Getting started
- The technologies
- Node.js
- Restify
- MongoDb
- Mongoose
- Building the server
- Restify configuration
- MongoDb/Mongoose configuration
- Mongoose Schema
- Setting up the routes
- Setting up the client (Backbone.js)
- Saving a message
- Retrieving a list of messages
- Conclusion
- Relevant Links
- Cross-domain Backbone.js with sessions using CORS
- Security
- Getting started
- Checking session state at first load
- An example Session model
- Hooking up views to listen to changes in
auth - Building a compatible server
- Example node server
- Conclusion
- Relevant Links
- SEO for single page apps
- How does redirecting bots work?
- Implementation using Phantom.js
- Redirecting bots
- Relevant Links
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