Comments on: 3 Stages Of A Backbone Application’s Startup

By: Craft Blue

Craft Blue — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:54:00 +0000

I know it’s quite popular, but you might consider linking directly to the github project whenever you reference Marionette for the unfamiliar (or adding a one line explanation of what it does).

https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.marionette

By: Lars

Lars — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:13:00 +0000

Thanks! The problem I have mostly is that I dont have any backend. So I end up using various node.js tools trying to find something that suits for building and pre compressing only. ”my backends” are just http apis.

By: Derick Bailey

Derick Bailey — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:30:00 +0000

I have another post that covers file / folder organization: http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2012/02/02/javascript-file-folder-structures-just-pick-one/

as for minify / compress – depends on the environment. in ASP.NET MVC, I’m using SquishIt. In Rails apps, I’d suggest the Asset Pipeline (or for Rails < 3.1, the Jammit gem). In NodeJS, there are several minifiers available. RequireJS can do that with the addition of the R.js optimizer, too. It largely depends on what tools your using on the back-end, and whether you want to do a build step or a runtime compression. I don't think it makes much difference if it's build or runtime, though. just as long as your using one :)

By: Lars

Lars — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:02:00 +0000

Hi Derick

How do your organize your backbone apps into files and dirs? Do you use and tool to build/compresss/minify and/or serve your app with a dev server or anything like that?

By: Derick Bailey

Derick Bailey — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:31:00 +0000

I used it in some test scenarios when it was first being developed and really liked what i saw. I haven’t had a chance to use it in a production app, though. But it does bring the best of backbone and knockout together, which is a good thing. I can’t speak to it’s scalability or performance, though.

By: Gregg

Gregg — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:16:00 +0000

Sorry for going kinda off-topic…have you tried KnockbackJS (BackboneJS + KnockoutJS)? If so, what are your thoughts on it? I’m about to give BackboneJS a try but am wondering if it’s best to go straight to KnockbackJS. There are almost too many choices for JS frameworks/libraries! ;)

By: Derick Bailey

Derick Bailey — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:05:00 +0000

yeah, that’s what i did for the situation where i wrote the “onReset” code originally. it worked out really well.

By: Navy92f

Navy92f — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:46:00 +0000

thank you for you article.
is it right that I “.fetch” my collection in the app init step,and i make a “onReset” call back in my contextual step?
personById: function(id){ App.persons.onReset(function(collection){ var person = collection.get(id); App.showPerson(person); });}