SDRuby Backbone lightning talk

GIVE YOURSELF SOME BACKBONE

Ryan Wealdisurfsoftware.com

Monday, February 28, 2011

WHAT IS BACKBONE.JS?

•Lightweight MVC framework

•Model - View - Controller

•Way to organize your Javascript

& Collections

•Slightly different MVC from Rails

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CHANGING THE FLOW

Rails Model

Rails Controller

Rails View

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CHANGING THE FLOWRails Model

Rails Controller

Backbone Model

Backbone Controller

Backbone View

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WHY WOULD I WANT THAT

•Easier to test your Javascript

•Makes your Rails app a simple REST API

•Simplify your Ajax

•Offload computation to the client

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CODE SAMPLE

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RESOURCES

http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/

http://www.jamesyu.org/2011/01/27/cloudedit-a-backbone-js-tutorial-by-example/

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DONE!

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DONE!

Ryan Wealdisurfsoftware.comgithub.com/rweald

twitter.com/ucsd_surfNerd

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