Programming in CoffeeScript

12. Example: Todo List Part 3 (Client-side w/ Backbone.js)

In Chapter 11, “Example: Todo List Part 2 (Client-side w/ jQuery)” we wrote a client-side front end for a todo list application using the jQuery library. At the end of that chapter I talked about how we could have written that code somewhat differently, but doing so would have meant that we basically rewrote the Backbone.js¹ framework. Because I’m not typically in favor of reinventing the wheel, I thought we could, instead, see what our application would look like if we used Backbone instead of jQuery to write our client-side code.

What Is Backbone.js?

Backbone is a client-side MVC² framework written in JavaScript by Jeremy Ashkenas,³ the creator of a little language known as CoffeeScript. ...