Backbone.js patterns and best practices : a one-stop guide to best practices and design patterns when building applications using Backbone.js / Swarnendu De.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De, Swarnendu.

Series:

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

JavaScript (Computer program language).

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a step-by-step guide to design patterns, best practices, and solutions to common problems for Backbone.js-based application development.This book is for JavaScript developers who work with Backbone.js and want to learn the best design patterns to develop complex web applications. Basic knowledge of Backbone.js and JavaScript is essential.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgments; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1:Reducing Boilerplate with Plugin Development; Basic components of Backbone.js; Using Underscore.js; Reusing code with extensions; Creating a base class; Developing plugins without extending base classes; Understanding JavaScript mixins; What is a mixin?; Creating classic mixins; Creating functional mixins; Caching mixin functions; Using curry to combine a function and arguments; Summary; Chapter 2:Working with Views; Basic usage of views

Understanding the el propertyListening to view events; Displaying model data with templates; Partially updating a view; Understanding nested views; Knowing when to use subviews; Avoiding multiple DOM reflow; Re-rendering parent views; Removing parent views; Working with templates; Storing templates in an HTML file; Storing templates in a JavaScript file; Precompiling templates; Avoiding evaluation in templates; Using template helper functions; Understanding automatic model-view data binding; Using Marionette's ItemView, CollectionView, and CompositeView; ItemView; CollectionView

Working with CompositeViewUsing Layout Manager; Summary; Chapter 3:Working with Models; Basic usage of models; Using defaults property; Avoiding object references in the defaults property; Data interaction with server; Validating the data; Using the Backbone.Validation plugin; Configuring validation rules; Prevalidating a model with the preValidate() method; Serializing models; Understanding the relational data model; Summary; Chapter 4:Working with Collections; Basic usage of collections; Performing data operations with collections; Fetching data from the server; Saving data to the server

Sorting a collectionSorting a collection with multiple attributes; Filtering a collection; Performing basic filtering; Filtering a collection with a duplicate collection; Self-filtering with full data pointers; Understanding the collection of multiple model types; Summary; Chapter 5:Routing Best Practices and Subrouting; Working with routers; Best practices for working with routers; Avoiding large functional code in route methods; Instantiating views in router methods; Using regular expressions for selective routing; Subrouting - a key to organizing complex apps; Summary

Chapter 6:Working with Events, Sync, and StorageUnderstanding custom events; A simple case study on custom events; Using an event dispatcher; Creating multiple event dispatchers; Using different event namespaces; Avoiding memory leaks with the listenTo() method; Overriding the Backbone.sync() method; Offline storage using the Backbone.LocalStorage adapter; Summary; Chapter 7:Organizing Backbone Applications - Structure, Optimize, and Deploy; Understanding the application directory structure; Working with Asynchronous Module Definition; Adding Require.js to your project

Configuring dependencies

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 11, 2014).

ISBN:

9781783283583

1783283580

OCLC:

869520071