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Author: Addy Osmani
ISBN : B00DCWOI5G
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If you want to build your site’s frontend with the single-page application (SPA) model, this hands-on book shows you how to get the job done with Backbone.js. You’ll learn how to create structured JavaScript applications, using Backbone’s own flavor of model-view-controller (MVC) architecture.
Start with the basics of MVC, SPA, and Backbone, then get your hands dirty building sample applications—a simple Todo list app, a RESTful book library app, and a modular app with Backbone and RequireJS. Author Addy Osmani, an engineer for Google’s Chrome team, also demonstrates advanced uses of the framework.
- Learn how Backbone.js brings MVC benefits to the client-side
- Write code that can be easily read, structured, and extended
- Work with the Backbone.Marionette and Thorax extension frameworks
- Solve common problems you’ll encounter when using Backbone.js
- Organize your code into modules with AMD and RequireJS
- Paginate data for your Collections with the Backbone.Paginator plugin
- Bootstrap a new Backbone.js application with boilerplate code
- Use Backbone with jQuery Mobile and resolve routing problems between the two
- Unit-test your Backbone apps with Jasmine, QUnit, and SinonJS
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- File Size: 3556 KB
- Print Length: 374 pages
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (May 10, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DCWOI5G
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Free Developing Backbone.js Applications
I like this book but I don't care much for the layout. It starts with an introduction, crams Backbone.js basics into a single chapter, presents two solid Backbone.js examples and then uses the rest of the book to cover Backbone.js extensions (e.g. Marionette, Thorax, Paginator) and other JavaScript libraries (e.g. RequireJS, jQuery Mobile, Jasmine, QUnit, SinonJS). It's unnerving that 60%+ of the book only has a tenuous connection to Backbone.js. The author probably wrote this book to show how he develops single-page applications and the Backbone.js-focused title was bolted on to help with marketing.
I've been working my way through the code samples. As expected, there are a few places where the code has editing/syntax errors, there are a few places were the code works but it does not do much to improve understanding (and could be improved to make it crystal clear) and there are a few places where Backbone.js has since changed since the book was published. The Backbone.js basics chapter is long but, in several cases, glosses over important topics, especially the Backbone.js REST support. Through trial-and-error and continued reading, I have gotten to understand them but I would have preferred the book to explain them thoroughly and in one place. The Backbone.js basics chapter is tough and tedious to work through and required several attempts. It is tough and tedious because I am actually typing and executing the code and, due to the errors, lack of clarity and Backbone.js changes, I need to spend 1/2 hour to enhance and experiment with the code every 1/3 of a page.
The two Backbone.js chapters with sample applications (a To Do list and a Library) are significantly easier and a bit better than the Backbone.
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