Backbone.js Online Training

Course Syllabus of Backbone.js Online Training

Introduction

Concepts: Model-View-Controller

• What is Model-View-Controller?
• How does Backbone.js fit into this model?
• What about the back-end?

Basic Backbone

• A very simple model
• Retrieving our simple model
• Saving our simple model

Event handling

• Capturing events
• Abandoning events
• Triggering events

The model in depth

• Building a Model with extend()
• Getters and setters
• Constructors and defaults
• Managing changes
• Validation

Collections: Multiple models

• Overview of the collections API
• Creating your own Collection
• Adding and removing elements
• Comparing and sorting elements
• Filtering collections
• Data manipulation as a batch operation

Manipulating collections with Underscore.js

• Iteration functions (forEach, map, filter)
• Accessors: last, first
• Searching: contains/include, etc
• Aggregation functions: max, min, etc.

Display information with Views

• Display a Model
• Display a Collection
• Display Aggregated (Reduced) Data

Backbone.sync: How to talk to a server

• The RESTful model of CRUD interaction
• Standard syncing over REST
• Alternatives for non-RESTful applications

Update server-side data with forms

• Display forms
• Perform client-side form validation
• Submit a form to update an object

Change views with a router

• Start on a main route
• Create links to display different views
• Animate changes
• Tracking History

Advanced topics and techniques

• Create an automatically updating view
• Extracting common code to libraries

Improve Performance

• Preparations
• Update data with a changes feed
• Make requests over a websocket
• Organize with Pagination

FAQ