Backbone.js Essentials.

by Jeremy Walker

Backbone.js Essentials.

180 pages, Paperback

First published May 29, 2015

Reviews

[Carlos Ramos · Rating 4 out of 5]

It explains the use case of the different components of Backbone, and actually made me understand some programming patterns that I found no real use case for before.

However, the problem this book has is that there are no practical activities related to the use of Backbone.

All s just concepts and theory, not a single exercise to follow along is shown.

He just throws the nippets of code, which might be more useful when you want to maybe reinforce the theory, or look up certain information, but no academic value, no step by step to see a real progress.

All in all, a book worth reading if you want to learn about Backbone.js

[Julio Biason · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the second book about Backbone and, honestly, the more I read, the less I understand about it; but I believe that's absolutely only my fault.

Although the book explains each of the Backbone classes in deep, it never really connects one to another. It seriously lack a whole description on how to build an app from start to finish. Even if you know everything about collections and models (and that they represent a table and a record, respectively), how to create a View and how to route things around, you seriously lack the idea behind connecting one to another -- although Views are shown using Models directly, it should actually go on how to draw several models from a collection in a single step, for example.

So, although good for understanding Backbone classes, it lacks on the general building of a Backbone app.

[Toby · Rating 5 out of 5]

This a good introduction in the use of the Backbone.js framework, without being an introduction to programming. It gave a solid understanding about Backbone.js to help me maintain an existing code base. The author also provides further reading and more in depth references for deeper dives.