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Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices Improve your Backbone.js skills with this step-by-step guide to patterns and best practice. It will help you reduce boilerplate in your code and provide plenty of open source plugin solutions to common problems along the way.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783283576
Length 174 pages
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Swarnendu De Swarnendu De
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Reducing Boilerplate with Plugin Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Views 3. Working with Models 4. Working with Collections 5. Routing Best Practices and Subrouting 6. Working with Events, Sync, and Storage 7. Organizing Backbone Applications – Structure, Optimize, and Deploy 8. Unit Test, Stub, Spy, and Mock Your App Books, Tutorials, and References Precompiling Templates on the Server Side
Organizing Templates with AMD and Require.js Index

Chapter 7. Organizing Backbone Applications – Structure, Optimize, and Deploy

In the previous chapters of this book, we looked at the individual components of Backbone.js and learned about several good practices that help create a better application. However, Backbone itself doesn't provide any application structure or guidance on how to organize the application source code. This makes it quite difficult for beginner-level programmers to understand how to create a folder structure, add proper namespaces, load script files in the appropriate order, and follow patterns to create a robust app architecture.

Almost every Backbone.js developer, at some point of time, faces this issue. You can find many articles (check the blog links on application architecture in Appendix A, Books, Tutorials, and References) on the Web where developers have described how they tried to structure their Backbone code base. But that again makes the task difficult because you may need to choose a particular solution...

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