If you want to build your site’s frontend with the single-page application (SPA) model, this hands-on book shows you how to get the job done with Backbone.js. You’ll learn how to create structured JavaScript applications, using Backbone’s own flavor of model-view-controller (MVC) architecture.

Backbone.js is an open source, JavaScript library that helps you to build sophisticated and structured web apps. It’s important to have well-organized frontend code for easy maintenance and extendability. With the Backbone framework, you’ll be able to build applications that are a breeze to manage.

The book is fully correct and functional as-is, but is being updated to refactor code with deprecation warnings in preparation for Marionette 3.0.

Learn how to build a full-stack application with Backbone.js by taking advantage of JavaScript modules, workflow automation, and Backbone’s interface building blocks. With this practical guide, author Patrick Mulder takes experienced backend developers and JavaScript programmers through the steps necessary to create a fully functional single-page application.

The book is fully correct and functional as-is, but is being updated to refactor code with deprecation warnings in preparation for Marionette 3.0.

Frontend web applications are soaring in popularity and the Backbone.js library is leading this charge with a modular, lightweight approach for organizing JavaScript web applications. At the same time, testing client-side JavaScript and Backbone.js programs remains a difficult and tedious undertaking.