addyosmani/backbone-fundamentals
Backbone Fundamentals
Backbone Fundamentals is an introductory guide to building structured client-side JavaScript applications using Backbone.js. It covers the core concepts of model-view-controller architecture, including models, views, collections, and routers, to compose maintainable single-page applications.
The book explores event-driven state propagation, where model changes broadcast through custom events to decouple updates from view re-rendering, and a RESTful JSON sync layer that maps CRUD operations to HTTP endpoints. It also covers template-based view rendering, modular script loading for managing code dependencies, and the overall model-view-event architecture that organizes application code for maintainability.
Beyond the Backbone.js tutorial content, the project includes a command-line build pipeline that generates the book into multiple output formats including HTML, ePub, Mobi, PDF, and RTF from a single source. This multi-format book generation capability allows the documentation to be distributed as a freely available educational resource under a Creative Commons license.