Backbone.js JavaScript Framework

Owing to the increasing number of web applications being created and used in this high tech era, dynamic pages have replaced the static web pages at a fast pace. Using JavaScript framework we can simplify the front-end application development.

For rich client-side applications, a more structured approach is often helpful. At its core Backbone.js is an implementation of the traditional Model-View-Controller pattern. However, there are some deviations from the traditional MVC pattern.

Backbone’s main benefits, regardless of your target platform or device, include helping:

• Organize the structure to your application
• Simplify server-side persistence
• Decouple the DOM from your page’s data
• Model data, views and routers in a succinct manner
• Provide DOM, model and collection synchronization

e-Zest offers the following services under Backbone.js

• Backbone.js based application development
• Backbone.js consulting services

Backbone.js ships with a number of very useful functions for handling and working with your data. From e-Zest’s experience of working with Backbone.js for various projects from a range of domains and industries, we concluded that MVC for the front-end avoids mess of codes which otherwise is incredibly hard to maintain. Also, workflow gets simplified when business logic is taken care of by models. Some important facts about Backbone.js that has simplified application development to a larger extent are listed below

• Core components: model, view, collection, router. It also enforces its own flavor of MV*
• Good documentation, with more improvements on the way
• Used by large companies such as SoundCloud and Foursquare to build non-trivial applications
• Event-driven communication between views and models
• Supports data bindings through manual events or a separate key-value observing (KVO) library
• Great support for RESTful interfaces out of the box, so models can be easily tied to a backend