Course Content

• Introduction
• 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
• Conclusion