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Beginning Backbone.js

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  1. James Sugrue
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  • Beginning Backbone.js is your step-by-step guide to mastering Backbone.js, taking you from downloading Backbone.js to architecting rich, stable, and robust Java.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. An Introduction to Backbone.js

    • James Sugrue
    Pages 1-20

  3. Getting Object-Oriented

    • James Sugrue
    Pages 21-38

  4. Backbone Models and Collections

    • James Sugrue
    Pages 39-62

  5. Backbone View and Templating Libraries

    • James Sugrue
    Pages 63-80

  6. Routers and Events

    • James Sugrue
    Pages 81-94

  7. From Start to Finish: A Complete App Example

    • James Sugrue
    Pages 95-126

  8. The Backbone Ecosystem

    • James Sugrue
    Pages 127-150

  9. Testing Your Backbone.js Application

    • James Sugrue
    Pages 151-178

  10. Using Grunt for Your Build Process

    • James Sugrue
    Pages 179-202

  11. Extending Backbone with Marionette and Thorax

    • James Sugrue
    Pages 203-230

  12. Best Practices with Backbone

    • James Sugrue
    Pages 231-248

  13. Creating a Manageable JavaScript Code Base

    • James Sugrue
    Pages 249-270

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 651-659
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About this book

Beginning Backbone.js is your step-by-step guide to learning and using the Backbone.js library in your web projects. Backbone.js is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries among web developers, used to create modular, single-page web apps. This book takes you from downloading Backbone.js and its dependencies all the way to using more advanced libraries to structure your application architecture, and everything in between.

With a real-world, practical approach, you will learn how you can integrate Backbone.js into the center of your JavaScript stack, and create scalable applications. James Sugrue shows you how to implement all aspects of templating, work efficiently with RequireJS, and fully understand Grunt and all its plug-ins. Armed with this knowledge you'll be able to architect a continuous integration system that is key to real-world applications.

With the explosion of JavaScript-based applications on the web, the need for more structured approaches to code management is more important than ever. Backbone.js helps create applications that separate models from views, enabling developers to avoid spaghetti code. Beginning Backbone.js will gently guide you into this amazingly powerful library, and help you ramp up to building professional applications. Integrate Backbone.js into your work today with this indispensable book.

About the author

James Sugrue has worked in the software development industry for over 13 years. He is currently based in Cork, Ireland, working as Principal Front-End Architect for Carma, a real-time transportation startup. James began his career with a German safety automation company, working his way from graduate to architect, while helping to shape the company's technology roadmap.Always on the lookout for new and exciting technologies, James lives to code and spends much of his spare time building mobile and web application for fun. He has also been a regular editor at JavaLobby and EclipseZone for over 5 years. This is his first book.

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