Backbone.js overview

Backbone.js is a library of tools that helps to build client side rich web applications.
Providing
- Models with Key-Value binidng
- Custom Events
- Collections with a rich API of enumerable functions
- Views with declarative event handling
- connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface

Client-side backbone.js application
- Router(s)
- Views
- Models
- Collections

JSON data

Server
- RESTful endpoint

Pros
- Fast
- Highly interactive

Cons
- Cannot be indexed by search engines (without extra work)
- Difficult to test (as client side application)
- Security Issues

SPA - Single Page Applications
- Improved User Experience
SPA on Client Side
- User interface
- Logic
- Page Generation

SPA challenges
- Lack of tooling and experience
- SEO
- Working with different browsers

Backbone.js
Routers helps simulate Page changes, support page history and bookmarking.

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