This book is a practical guide to Backbone.js programming and provides how to integrate with several web technology such as HTML5, Bootstrap CSS, RequireJS, PHP, Node.js and Socket.io. It describes all the elements of the Backbone API and illustrates their use with code examples. The following is a list of highlight topics:
* Preparing development environment
* Model, View, and Collection
* Events and Model Validation
* Backbone View Templates and Data Binding with case study: Underscore.js, Handlebars, Mustache.js
* Backbone Router
* Interacting with Server: Backbone Sync
* Building Backbone mdular: Backbone.js, Handlebars, and RequireJS
* Case study 1: Building web application with Backbone.js, PHP RESTful and MySQL
* Case study 2: Building web application with Backbone.js, Node.js, Express RESTful, RequireJS and MongoDB
* Case study 3: Building web application with Backbone.js, Node.js, Express and Socket.io
