Getting Started with Backbone

Andrew BurgessFeb 27, 2015

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Getting Started with Backbone

Introduction

01:04

There are many front-end libraries to choose from when you're building a web application, and all of them have their pros and cons. In this course, you'll get your first look at one of the top contenders: Backbone. Backbone is an extremely flexible front-end library that offers an "MVC-ish" structure that will connect easily with your RESTful back-end.

Before you begin, you should know that Backbone requires Underscore, and often jQuery. If you don't know these libraries, you might want to check them out before getting started. Also, we'll use Express briefly, as a back-end; but don't worry if you haven't used that: it isn't required for Backbone.

1.Getting Started
3 lessons, 13:56

1.1
Introduction
01:04

1.2
Backbone Data Flow
03:16

1.3
Backbone Classes
09:36

2.Backbone Models
7 lessons, 38:03

2.1
Creating Models
03:19

2.2
Working With Model Attributes
07:44

2.3
Validating Models
04:04

2.4
Persisting Models to the Server
08:35

2.5
Using Model IDs
03:43

2.6
Listening for Model Events
07:47

2.7
Creating Model Methods
02:51

3.Backbone Collections
6 lessons, 17:52

3.1
Creating Collections
01:10

3.2
Managing Collection Contents
03:14

3.3
Syncing Collections
04:18

3.4
Using Collection Methods
03:14

3.5
Sorting Collections
02:42

3.6
Listening for Collection Events
03:14

4.Backbone Views
4 lessons, 26:08

4.1
Creating Views
03:18

4.2
Rendering Views
07:25

4.3
Managing DOM Events
10:42

4.4
Persisting Data With Views
04:43

5.Backbone Routers
3 lessons, 11:19

5.1
Creating Routers
01:59

5.2
Adding Routes
04:26

5.3
Navigating With Links
04:54

6.Conclusion
1 lesson, 01:36

6.1
Conclusion
01:36

Andrew Burgess

Hi! I'm Andrew Burgess, and I'm a connoisseur of all things programming. I'm from near Toronto, Canada, and I've been fooling around with computers for nearly my whole life, both hardware and software. Right now, I'm finishing up a computer science degree. For almost a decade now, I've been playing around with over a dozen programming languages on several different platforms, from JavaScript to Java, from Ruby to Befunge. My favourite has always been JavaScript. I've always enjoyed writing, so when I discovered Tuts+ in 2009, I was excited to start writing tutorials. Since then, I've been writing tutorials and producing screencasts for Tuts+. Right now, I'm a course instructor and I produce mostly JavaScript-related courses. Maybe you've seen Building a Web App from Scratch with Angular.js or Node.js from Scratch; that's me! I've also written a few ebooks, like Getting Good with Git, Getting Good with JavaScript, and, more recently, Backbone.js Blueprints.

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Getting Started with Backbone

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Getting Started with Backbone

Introduction

1.Getting Started3 lessons, 13:56

2.Backbone Models7 lessons, 38:03

3.Backbone Collections6 lessons, 17:52

4.Backbone Views4 lessons, 26:08

5.Backbone Routers3 lessons, 11:19

6.Conclusion1 lesson, 01:36

1.Getting Started
3 lessons, 13:56

2.Backbone Models
7 lessons, 38:03

3.Backbone Collections
6 lessons, 17:52

4.Backbone Views
4 lessons, 26:08

5.Backbone Routers
3 lessons, 11:19

6.Conclusion
1 lesson, 01:36