Backbone
Patterns

Building apps with Backbone.js

Here, I try to document the good practices that our team has learned along the way building Backbone applications. This document assumes that you already have some knowledge of Backbone.js, jQuery, and of course, JavaScript itself.

Table of contents

• Model patterns
  • Bootstrapping data
• View patterns
  • Inline templates
  • JST templates
  • Partials
  • Animation buffer
  • Sub-views
  • Delegate views
• General patterns
  • Mixins
• Conventions
  • Naming convention
  • Namespace convention
  • RequireJS and AMD
• Anti-patterns
  • document.ready abuse
  • Things outside views
  • Event handlers outside views
• Other links

Thanks

© 2011-2016, Rico Sta. Cruz. Released under the MIT License.

This document is authored and maintained by Rico Sta. Cruz with help from its contributors.

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