Backbone.js

Backbone.js is a JavaScript library with a RESTful JSON interface and is based on the model–view–presenter (MVP) application design paradigm.

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Description

Backbone is known for being lightweight, as its only dependency is on one JavaScript library, Underscore.js.

Ajax web applications

Backbone is commonly used to implement web applications using Ajax.

Single-page application

It is designed for developing single-page web applications, and for keeping various parts of web applications (e.g. multiple clients and the server) synchronized.

Author

Backbone was created by Jeremy Ashkenas, who is also known for CoffeeScript.

See also

• Ajax (programming)
• JavaScript
• JSON
• [[Library (computing)
• Single-page application
• Web application

External Links

• Backbone.js @ Wikipedia