Full Stack Web Development with Backbone.js: Scalable Application Design with 100% JavaScript

by Patrick Mulder

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.

194 pages, Paperback

First published March 22, 2014

Reviews

[Jonathan Knapp · Rating 3 out of 5]

A whirlwind introduction to building more complicated apps in Backbone. The author touched on a variety of different topics leaving each with a tidbit of knowledge and a few plugins/links for the reader to investigate on their own. I feel like the reader would have enjoyed a deeper dive into parts of the book, as relying on links to subsidize the content might not help users who have not yet experienced the growing pains of a Backbone app on their own.