Full Stack Web Development with Backbone.Js: Scalable Application Design with 100% JavaScript

by Patrick Mulder

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
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194 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Alessandro Pellizzari · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretende di essere molto di più di quello che in realtà è. Riesce ad andare poco oltre la semplice presentazione delle diverse tecnologie basate su javascript (backbone, node, thorax, bower, grunt, ecc.)

Utile per avere un quadro generale, ma non molto per imparare a strutturare bene un'applicazione full-stack, e praticamente per nulla per imparare a programmare con backbone.

[Jacopo Lanzoni · Rating 2 out of 5]

I started the book to improve my understanding of Backbone.js, but what I found is a collection of overviews of different JavaScript libraries and frameworks for full-stack development in JavaScript. Node, grunt, express, yeoman, bower... are all cited and used in the book, making it difficult for the reader who doesn't know those technologies, and boring for the developer which is looking for more depth. I think the book is neither appropriate for a beginner which want to get familiar with Backbone.js nor for an expert which want a complete overview of full stack development in JavaScript.

[Jaap · Rating 1 out of 5]

Rommelig en met veel fouten. Teveel onderwerpen en te slecht gescheiden van elkaar. De support op Github is ook nog eens heel slecht. Je kunt de voorbeelden downloaded als je goed zoekt maar alles eraan rammelt.

We een leuk overzicht van Backbone technieken maar te ingewikkeld voor een beginner en te oppervlakkig voor iemand die specifiek iets wil weten.