Instant Backbone.Js Application Development

by Thomas Hunter II

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. This book is a practical, step-by-step tutorial that will teach you to build Backbone.js applications quickly and efficiently.This book is targeted towards developers. It is assumed that you have at least a basic understanding of JavaScript and jQuery selectors. If you are interested in building dynamic Single Page Applications that interact heavily with a backend server, then this is the book for you.

Genres: Technology

64 pages, ebook

First published July 1, 2013

About the author

Thomas is the author of Advanced Microservices and is a prolific public speaker with a passion for reducing complex problems into simple language and diagrams. His career includes working at Fortune 50's in the Midwest, co-founding a successful startup, and everything in between.

Reviews

[Carlos Ramos · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very good book on Backbone if you know nothing about it, with a simple example you can follow through just with your browser and a text editor, no backend server (until the last part).

I have a better understanding of Backbone now, and what it can do, thanks to this instant guide!

Short to read, to the point, and delivers.

[Julio Biason · Rating 1 out of 5]

Got this in a promotion, expecting to understand why I should learn backbone.

And the problem is, although the book goes into building a SPA and tells every single step, it severely lacks the "why" you should do such things. Why you should create a "Routes" property on your app; why you have collections AND models, why Backbone can't infer the collections by the models and so on.

In the end, I think I learnt more about LoDash than Backbone.