This course takes you from zero Backbone.js experience to building real applications with it, assuming only a basic grasp of JavaScript and jQuery going in.
How the course progresses
- Start with the big picture: Backbone's core building blocks and how they interact
- Work through concise, hands-on lectures, each paired with cheat sheets and mini projects
- Tackle real-world challenges like unit testing, modularizing code with RequireJS, and testing with Jasmine
- Build a Backbone application from scratch, iterating on it section by section
What you'll come away with
Along the way you'll pick up broader front-end habits, from usability and clean code to a bit of security awareness, and practice recreating features similar to those on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. Before-and-after source code is provided for every lecture so you can compare your work as you go.