Backbone.js

Backbone.js is a JavaScript Library designed for single-page web applications.

Description

Backbone.js provides a variety of features related to web applications.

web applications (e.g. multiple clients and the server) synchronized.

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.

RESTful interface

RESTful interface and 

Model-view-presenter

Backbone is based on the model–view–presenter (MVP) paradigm.

Model-view-presenter divides a computer program into three parts, each with a specific responsibility:

• The model
• The view
• The presenter

Author

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

See also

• Ajax (programming)
• CoffeeScript
• JavaScript
• Jeremy Ashkenas
• JSON
• Library (computing)
• Model–view–presenter (MVP)
• Single-page application
• Web application

External Links

• Backbone.js @ Wikipedia