Course Overview
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Beginner What is backbone.js?
Backbone.js can be defined as a light weight java script library that provides structure to web application that run in a web browser. It is designed for creating single page web application and helps to manage and decouple burden in web application with its code that can be used by the user for long term.
Backbone.js provides custom events and offers MVC frameworks that abstracts model with key values which can be created, validated and saved to the server. Developers use backbone.js to create SPAs otherwise known as single page application which are web applications that load into the browser and proceed to the changes in data on the client side without any refreshment being done on the page from the server. Backbone is popular and mature as well as abundance of plugins and extensions that are built upon it. It has been used by many reckoned companies such as LinkedIn, sound cloud, Walmart to develop non-trivial applications. Rather than in inventing the java script model, backbone focuses on providing you methods for manipulating and querying your data.
Exploring the history:
The founder of backbone.js is Jeremy ashkenas, which was initially released in 13th October 2010. It was written in JavaScript and was used in cross platform operating system. However, the stable release was made on March 12th, 2016.
Fundamentals of backbone.js
Backbone is not a framework but library that scales well with other and plays well even from embedded widgets to large scale applications. It is considered as open source component for the DocumentCloud. Backbone has only single hard dependency, known as underscore.js. We will also advantage jquery for restful persistence and easy DOM manipulation.
Excellent features of backbone.js
- It automatically updates the HTML of the application when the model changes.
- Using java script functions, backbone.js allows front end and develop applications much better and easier.
- Contains over 100 available extension, it is free and open source library.
- Backbone is composed of models and views, routers and events for assembling client side web applications.
- js displays the data at the server side while managing the data model that includes the user data
- Backbone is considered a simple library for dividing user interface logic and business
- It helps to organize your code and acts like a backbone to your project
- As its small, backbone source can be read and understood easily within few hours.
- It allows creating mobile application in an organized format. Backbone is very easy to set up and function.
Trying out backbone for designing your codes
Backbone.js acts like a magic to your tons of codes making it nicer and maintainable for you. However, you can learn it fast and even it allows you to work with your technology, you are comfortable with. For developing your applications and designing your thousands of codes, backbone.js provides well organized, structured format and excellent functionality to your project. So now you don’t have to end up your application into mess- backbone.js is there to overcome all the complications.
Backbone.js course Description
With two years of refinement, backbone.js has been considered a mature library that offers essential solution of data structuring and user interface to build your web application. The online course of backbone.js offered by educba with 26+ lectures and 5 + hours of HD videos create authoritative information for developers to build real world app with backbone, you can easily learn and understand the course well and with our lifetime access you can overcome all your routing problems and much more. The online training course has different sections with step by step process
Section1: introduction to backbone.js javascript
In this part you will get a glimpse of backbone.js and its basic understanding of how this works. You will be able to get a better knowledge backbone.js utility in the designing of web application. Along with that you will get a brief overview of components of javascript with suitable examples. Apart from that, you will cover many features of backbone.js core with different techniques that you will apply in application. In this chapter you will be exploring the evolution of design patter and how backbone.js applies the pattern to client side development.
Section2: Events and Methods
In this section you will review about events and how to use backbone events and the numerous methods such as off methods, on methods, trigger method, once method, listen to, stop listening methods and listen to once methods with much easy explanation to bind the custom events. You can manipulate the backbone.js events using the methods and description, which has been clearly provided in this course.
Section3: Events and Methods
Well, in this section you will grasp more about models, introduction of extend methods and code mistake for extend method with respective examples. However, we also have a brief description on initializing model and the many different sets of method. We also have a detailed explanation of unset model, ID model, clear model and lectures on CID method added in our courses. Hopefully, we have demonstrated all the distinctive methods in this section.
Section4: Collections and Methods
This part of the course describes about the importance of collection, basically introduction of collection and its functions and working with collection extend methods. We have even covered various parts of collections in models with definition. Perhaps , not only this, we have also covered methods like tojson method, work add method, remove methods at methods and punch collection with proper description and functionality of this methods to manipulate the backbone.js collections.
Section5: Router and Methods
The last section contains descriptions to routers and the various methods such as extend methods, routes method, initialize method, route method practical, navigate method, execute method and backbone recap along with their function on URL representation of application object. This course gives relevant information on different task performed by each method. With all the understandable and easy teachings provided in our courses you will be able to set up web application in a much easier and convenient structured format.
What are the pre-requisites for backbone.js?
Before pursuing for this online training course, you should possess essential or basic knowledge on CSS, HTML, document object model basically known as DOM, JavaScript and any text editor. Developers should have better understanding on how the web based application and internet works before creating web based application with backbone.js. a complete knowledge to advanced JavaScript programming and JavaScript training will be helpful to you for meeting your requirement in a much easier way. However if you have gained the entire above requirement you can learn our course more conveniently. Our comprehensive materials and step by step procedures makes effortless for beginners who want to enroll the course of backbone.js.
Target audience for this online training
The course is designed for web developers and software developers who everyday work on web applications. Besides that, we have also introduced this course for beginners, who want to learn basic programming using backbone.js. With suitable examples and divided sections of the course, it makes easy ways for developers to understand the course better.
FAQs on backbone.js
- Why do I need to learn backbone.js?
The aim of backbone.js is to provide minimal set of data structuring and ambitious interface that are helpful in building dynamic web applications using JavaScript. Moreover, you have the freedom to build your own web applications that meets your requirement. As it’s smaller, it scales well from embedded widget to massive apps. It focuses on supplying helpful methods to manipulate and query your data in your application.
- What are the alternatives to backbone.js dependencies?
As backbone has only one hard dependency termed as underscore.js. So, you have to include jquery and json2.js for supporting its features. Mostly, you need to put two more lightweight alternatives underscore.js and jquery while opting for backbone.js.
- What are the various modules of backbone.js?
Backbone.js has the following modules for implementing user interface.
- HTTP request
- Model
- Views
- Events
- Router
- Collection
- Data source
What are the advantages of backbone.js?
Backbone has numerous advantages. Some are
- Provides custom events and key value binding
- Robust even handling
- Has API with tons of services
- Enables you to create web application with minimal set of data structure and user interface
- Helpful in developing single page web application or complex JavaScript application in an organized and structured format while mixing it with HTML.
What is collection in backbone.js?
Collection in backbone is used to represent ordered sets of model that binds events. If any model is triggered by event, it will also trigger collection in the model. Collections also help in synchronizing the data and sending response back to HTTP clients.
Career benefits of this training
If you are a developer s and have been experimenting on different frameworks then you would have come across that JavaScript framework is now in demand and increasing popularity in building web application through backbone.js. Backbone is highly opinionated and its greatest strength is its versatility. It is best suited for beginners as well as software developers for coding and designing projects and who want to create web applications. The demand of backbone.js training is never a loss but a profit that you owe to yourself.
Course testimonials
Cameron
Previously, it was hard to maintain JavaScript as it was getting messy with me. Fortunately, one of my friends suggested me to take this course and after watching this course so far, I feel confident in building my apps. I really appreciate all the effort and hard work done by team educba for making this course simple and understandable for people like me. Great work and thanks
Roger
I am a student and was looking for a course on backbone as I am very much interested in developing applications. The information provided in this training is useful and dense that is simple to grasp. This course made me tackle all the design patterns and understand much better. I would really thank educba for making me comfortable with starting a project and taking me to the next level. Good job educba looking forward for more courses on this training.
Nathalia
I really enjoyed the course and it’s fantastic. The integrated slides in the training are a nice touch and the lectures provided flow smoothly and nicely. The course is easy to follow highlighting all the relevant topics. Keep it up educba and I would recommend more advance course on backbone to produce.
Keith
This course has really helped me in learning the curves of backbone easily and smoothly. The course has helped me in understanding the javascript library and its various applications to set up web application with various examples. I am highly grateful to team educba for bringing this course. I would recommend this course to people who want to build applications and codes.
