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Awesome Backbone.js
General
Backbone Index
Discover new Backbone plugins and resources
BackboneConf
Conference about building applications on the web, with a focus on the Backbone.js library
StackOverflow
Tagged questions
Tutorials and articles
- A pragmatic guide to Backbone.js apps by Julio Cesar Ody
- Getting Started with Backbone by Koren Leslie Cohen
- A Complete Guide for Learning Backbone.js by Mohit Jain
- Hello Backbone.js by Artur Adib
- Backbone.js Wine Cellar Tutorial by Christophe Coenraets - Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
- Backbone patterns by Rico Sta. Cruz
- Complex Single Page Application Architecture with Backbone.js by Gur Dotan
- Building large Backbone applications by Victor Savkin
- A Guide to Writing Backbone Apps at Coursera by Pamela Fox
- CloudEdit: A Backbone.js Tutorial with Rails by James Yu - Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
- Our First Node.js App: Backbone on the Client and Server by Spike Brehm
- Using Backbone.js With Require.js by Greg Franko
- Backbone Model Unit Testing with Jasmine by Ken Tabor
- Backbone.js and Socket.io by Jason Strimpel
- Presenter First in Backbone.js by Shawn Andersom
- Websockets for Backbone by Christopher Keefer
- Fun with CoffeeScript and Backbone.js - Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
- Components with Backbone.js and Marionette.js by Jeremy Fairbank
- Boilerplate web app using Backbone.js, Express.js, Node.js, MongoDB by jkat98
- Backbone.js Tips And Patterns by Philip Whisenhunt
- Leveraging Deferreds in Backbone.js by Sam Breed
- Backbone.js for large scale applications - UI architecture by Oren Farhi
- Decorating A Backbone.Model With Features, For A UI Component by Derick Bailey
- Backbone.fwd: Forward Events From One Backbone Object, Through Another by Derick Bailey
- Backbone.View Patterns - Rendering A Collection by Oren Fahri
- Backbone.View Patterns - How & Why Use Subviews by Oren Fahri
- Backbone.View Patterns - The "Render" Method by Oren Fahri
- Building progressively enhanced websites using bulletproof Backbone & CSS transforms by Adrian Zumbrunnen
- Decoupling Backbone Apps From WebSockets by Derick Bailey
- Backbone.js And JavaScript Garbage Collection by Derick Bailey
- Getting familiar with Backbone.js by Pasha Craydon
- Backbone Antipatterns by Ben Teese
- Backbone.js for Absolute Beginners by Adrian Mejia - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4
- Building an App with Express and Backbone by Jack Franklin - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 and Part 8
- Backbone with ES6 by Mike Fowler
- Backbone.js tricks or treats by Tiago Garcia
- Backbone.js organizational patterns by Ben Eddy - Part 1, Part 2
- Backbone Cleanup by Naor Yehodaey
- Lazy loading Backbone collections with Promises by Timothée Boucher
- 5 Ways to Level-Up Your Backbone.js Code by David Aragon
- Why Backbone.js and ES6 Classes Don't Mix by Ben McCormick
- Top 8 Common Backbone.js Developer Mistakes by Mahmud Ridwan
- Integrating React With Backbone by Ben Lewis
- Using BackboneJS to improve your JavaScript code organization over a Ruby on Rails app by Ezequiel Rivadeneira Lichardi
- JavaScript For The Impatient: BackboneJS - Part 1, Part 2 by Corey Howell
- Building Backbone apps using Flux by Victor Doss
- Bringing Meteor’s reactive collections to Backbone by Jeff Wear
Books
- Developing Backbone.js Applications by Addy Osmani
- Backbone Tutorials by Thomas Davis
- Building Backbone Plugins by Derick Bailey and Jerome Gravel-Niquet
- Mastering Backbone.js by Abiee Echamea
- Backbone.js Testing by Ryan Roemer
- Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices by Swarnendu De
- Backbone.js Cookbook by Vadim Mirgorod
- Instant Backbone.js Application Development by Thomas Hunter II
- Beginning Backbone.js by James Sugrue
- Backbone.js Blueprints by Andrew Burgess
- Recipes with Backbone by Nick Gauthier and Chris Strom
- Full Stack Web Development with Backbone.js by Patrick Mulder
- Developing Single Page Apps with Backbone.js by Prateek Dayal - work in progress
Videos
BackboneConf 2013
Youtube playlist
BackboneConf 2014
Youtube playlist
Introduction to Backbone.js
Youtube playlist by Joseph Zimmerman
Backbone App Walkthrough
Youtube playlist by Joseph Zimmerman
Backbone.js Tutorial
Youtube playlist by Mosh Hamedani
BackboneRails Screencasts
Learn to Build Web Apps Using Backbone + Rails
- Backbone-Require-Boilerplate Explained by Greg Franko
- Backbone.js with Derick Bailey by Derick Bailey
- JavaScript Application Architecture with Backbone.js by Mathias Schäfer
- An Introduction to Backbone.js by Sid Maestre
- Put Some Backbone.js in your Apps by Sid Maestre
- Evolving Your JavaScript with Backbone.js by K Adam White
Examples and boilerplates
Backbone Require Boilerplate
A Rad Backbone.js and Require.js Boilerplate Project
Wine Cellar Sample Application
"Backbone Cellar" is a sample application built with Backbone.js
Employee Directory
Employee Directory sample application built with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap
Backbone Contact Manager
Simple Backbone.js example application
Backbone Boilerplates
Backbone.js stack boilerplates demonstrating integration with Express, Ruby, PHP, Grails and more
Backbone TodoMVC example
Simple todo app built using Backbone and Backbone.localStorage.