Beginning Backbone.js

CHAPTER 6

From Start to Finish: A Complete App Example

Now that we have run through the core Backbone concepts, it’s time to put everything together to create a fully functional app. This chapter will bring you through the various stages required to build an application powered by Backbone, starting at the design stages and resulting in a high-quality Twitter application. We will also introduce a more structured way of writing your application code, rather than simply inserting it between <script> tags as we have done in the previous chapters.

Designing Your Application

Before diving into the code, it’s important to take a step back and identify ...