Developing Backbone.js Applications

I got the early release of this book on Oreily Safari and I have a rather low opinion of this book. I was developing a Backbone.js app wanted to use this book to provide insights but this book was surprisingly completely unhelpful. I was ( and I guess I still am )struggling with rendering components , item views and list views and managing events/models and struggling with router etc. I am not the only programmer with these issues; there are plenty of non-trivial question about backbone.js on Stackoverflow. This book has little to help one understand the internals of backbone.js or how and where to apply underscore.js . For some reason this book veers off into node.js development as if every one using backbone.js is going to wrote a node.js back-end server app. Thankfully enough, there are several outstanding tutorials on the web on backbone.js and the underscore.js libraries as very well documented and the demo app is also very illustrative. I purchased this book on OReilly Safari to support the authors but the book is a complete disappointment.

I tried Backbone and am now looking at Angular... but part of me is starting to think "is this such a good idea?". All the authentication stuff, and validation, and so on has to be done server side anyway, and perhaps replicated in the JS framework. Also, keeping models in sync looks like it might be easy to screw up.

Wow. Surprised this hadn't been posted yet. I've been sharing this with people for a while now and I just assumed it had already been submitted.<p>Chaplin (despite being CoffeeScript) is also a good framework to check out since it demonstrates several good practices for large Backbone.js apps

Great work! The only thing is that this needs to get updated based on the changes of the new 0.9.9 release. Specifically you do not need to create a custom dispose function, remove now will remove listeners bound to the view.

Anybody wants to look to another one (not launched, still a beta version, but created with large projects in mind, speed of development and long time maintenance in mind): <a href="https://github.com/salboaie/shape" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/salboaie/shape</a> ?<p>I will greatly appreciate your feedback.

Is the jury out on best practices for SEO when using frameworks like Backbone.js to build "one page" sites?

This book has been a big help while learning backbone. It would be helpful to add some details around how ajax requests created by the framework. It was nice when I realized I could use models as ajax request making utilities.

That guy is my web dev hero.

I found this to be a good reference when I was looking for something a bit more in-depth than the typical Todo examples.

peepcode and nettuts+ videos on backbone are great too. This book is definetly interesting and worth buying for beginner that want non trivial exemples and advices on how to work with client apps in general.