Preface

Though Backbone.js provides a structure for JavaScript applications, developers need to take care of most of the design patterns and best practices themselves. Over the years, my JavaScript development team and I worked on multiple Backbone.js applications ranging from simple to extremely complex. We experienced different types of problems related to layout management, project architecture, modular development, and so on. Before I started writing this book, I spent a significant amount of time trying to figure out solutions for all the common problems associated with the development of Backbone.js applications. In this book, I have documented all my findings in detail.

Whether you are an intermediate- or advanced-level Backbone.js developer, this book will guide you through the best practices and patterns to handle different issues with each Backbone component. Whether this is by using your own solution or an existing Backbone plugin, you will get a clear idea of the best way to resolve any problem.

Instead of developing a single application spanning all the chapters, a simple and complete example on each topic is provided separately throughout this book. This is because it would be quite difficult to implement all the tips and patterns given in this book in a single application. Moreover, we preferred to provide immediate and compact solutions to problems, instead of including all the problems and solutions in a single large application. Within a short span, this book tries to cover all the important points you may need for the development of your Backbone.js application.