mjswensen/backbone-example

A simple Backbone application for demonstration purposes.

backbone-example

A simple Backbone application for demonstration purposes.

Presentation

Day One

1. Introduction to Backbone
2. MVC principles
3. Adapted MVC: the Backbone Router and View
4. Demonstrate example application in its finished state
5. Briefly reveal code in Day1/finish/

• index.html
• backbone-example.js
  • Models
  • Collections
  • Views
  • Tying it all together

1. Questions

Day Two

1. Modularizing the example application using require.js

• Dynamically load scripts based on declared dependencies
• Anatomy of a module
• text plugin usage to load templates
• RequireJS Optimizer: combines and minifies modules, Learning Suite usage

1. Handlebars Helpers

• Defines new template syntax
• Adding to Learning Suite

1. Using Backbone in the context of LearningSuite

• Role of and reason for LSModel and LSCollection
• Backbone.Validation
• ajax() support