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State of the Backbone

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June 01, 2012
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State of the Backbone

Slides for talk at the inaugural BackboneConf. Absent live code demo / tutorial with Q&A.

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June 01, 2012
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Transcript

  1. STATE OF THE BACKBONE

  2. None

  3. 1.5 Years

  4. In the Wild

  5. DocumentCloud

  6. Todos

  7. LinkedIn

  8. Trello

  9. Do.com

  10. Flow

  11. Basecamp (37Signals)

  12. Rdio

  13. SoundCloud

  14. Pandora

  15. Pitchfork

  16. Foursquare

  17. Groupon

  18. Airbnb

  19. Khan Academy

  20. Stripe

  21. TileMill

  22. Battlefield

  23. Art.sy

  24. Salon.io

  25. There is no typical Backbone app

  26. Iceberg

  27. Why do we take JavaScript seriously?

  28. Client-Side Wild West

  29. Rise of Ajax

  30. What would an ideal client-side API look like?

  31. (optional) Walkthrough

  32. Philosophy

  33. Get the truth out of the DOM

  34. Intentionally Minimal

  35. Fat Free, Guilt Free

  36. Driven by Use Cases

  37. UI Agnostic

  38. Transparent Source

  39. MVC

  40. MV*

  41. MVWhatever

  42. Views Models

  43. Everyone has invented this particular wheel

  44. Statelessness as a way of life

  45. Models UI

  46. Roadmap?

  47. Backbone.js 1.0

  48. Research Topics

  49. });