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