A Backbone.js refresher
Although this book assumes a comfortable level of familiarity with Backbone.js, Underscore.js, and jQuery, we will briefly touch upon the basics of Backbone.js application development.
Backbone.js provides abstractions and useful functionality for architecting and developing JavaScript web applications. Backbone.js brings order to the chaotic interactions between program and display logic, DOM events, and backend communication. This is achieved via what could loosely be considered a Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm that separates application code into the following topics:
Data modeling and retrieval
Display rendering and user interactivity
Brokering data and display logic to appropriately bind and manipulate data models and user interfaces
Note
Backbone.js does not completely follow a traditional MVC approach, causing some observers to call it an MV* framework. An MV* application has a model and a view but has something other than a controller connecting the model...
