Learning Backbone.js

Description

In this course, you will learn:

• The most relevant features for front-end developers and web designers that want to learn how to build out their web pages and keep their code organized, move away from the DOM, and use Backbone's useful JavaScript library.
• How to use models and collections to manage your data, and display it on your web page with views.
• Events and routers to create navigational logic in your web app.
• Models & Collections.

Syllabus:

• Introduction
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files
   

1. Getting Started

• What is Backbone?
• Understanding Backbone and other Model-View-Controller (MVC) libraries
• Setting up our files

2. Models and Collections

• Adding properties to the model
• Watching for model changes
• Creating a collection of models
• Challenge: Create a new model and watch when it changes
• Solution: Create a new model and watch when it changes
   

3. Views

• Understanding views
• Adding properties to the model view
• Creating and configuring templates
• Creating a collection view
• Loading model data on a webpage
• Challenge: Create a template
• Solution: Create a template
   

4. Events and Routers

• Understanding Backbone events
• Configuring routes
• Understanding how route links work

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