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Beginning Backbone.js is your step-by-step guide to learning and using the Backbone.js library in your web projects. Backbone.js is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries among web developers, used to create modular, single-page web apps. This book takes you from downloading Backbone.js and its dependencies all the way to using more advanced libraries to structure your application architecture, and everything in between.

With a real-world, practical approach, you will learn how you can integrate Backbone.js into the center of your JavaScript stack, and create scalable applications. James Sugrue shows you how to implement all aspects of templating, work efficiently with RequireJS, and fully understand Grunt and all its plug-ins. Armed with this knowledge you´ll be able to architect a continuous integration system that is key to real-world applications.

With the explosion of JavaScript-based applications on the web, the need for more structured approaches to code management is more important than ever. Backbone.js helps create applications that separate models from views, enabling developers to avoid spaghetti code. Beginning Backbone.js will gently guide you into this amazingly powerful library, and help you ramp up to building professional applications. Integrate Backbone.js into your work today with this indispensable book.

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Chapter 1: An Introduction To Backbone.js
Chapter 2: Getting Object-Oriented
Chapter 3: Backbone.js Model, View, and Collections
Chapter 4: Templating with Underscore, Handlebars, and Mustache
Chapter 5: Backbone.js Routers and Events
Chapter 6: Backbone.js Start To Finish: Twitter App Example
Chapter 7: The Backbone Ecosystem
Chapter 8: Testing Your Backbone.js Application
Chapter 9: Using Grunt for Your Build Process
Chapter 10: Extending Backbone.js with Marionnette
Chapter 11: Best Practices With Backbone.js
Chapter 12: Creating A Manageable JavaScript Codebase

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James Sugrue has worked in the software development industry for over 13 years. He is currently based in Cork, Ireland, working as Principal Front-End Architect for Carma, a real-time transportation startup. James began his career with a German safety automation company, working his way from graduate to architect, while helping to shape the company´s technology roadmap.Always on the lookout for new and exciting technologies, James lives to code and spends much of his spare time building mobile and web application for fun. He has also been a regular editor at JavaLobby and EclipseZone for over 5 years. This is his first book.

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