Master Backbone JS: A Course For Web Developers & Designers

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction to BackboneJS

Lecture 1: How This Course is Organized

Lecture 2: Introduction

Lecture 3: Why use BackBoneJS

Lecture 4: BackboneJS – Components

Lecture 5: Installing BackboneJS

Lecture 6: BackboneJS – Sneak Peek Models/Views

Chapter 2: Models

Lecture 1: Creating Models

Lecture 2: Model Validation

Lecture 3: Model Inheritance

Lecture 4: Fetching Data From the Server

Lecture 5: Destroying Model Instance

Lecture 6: Get The JSON From Model

Lecture 7: Using Default Values

Lecture 8: Parsing non-standard JSON into your Models

Lecture 9: Instantiating Models with non-standard JSON data

Lecture 10: Changing Attribute Name

Lecture 11: Sending JSON Back to the Server

Lecture 12: Overriding JSON Method

Lecture 13: Specifying the ID Attribute

Lecture 14: Model Events – Quick Introduction

Chapter 3: Views

Lecture 1: Creating Views

Lecture 2: Using Underscore Templates in Views

Lecture 3: Adding Events in Views

Lecture 4: Updating Model when View Changes & Vice Versa

Lecture 5: Using Existing DOM Element to Render View

Lecture 6: Custom Initialization Options

Lecture 7: Escaping user content – Preventing XSS attacks

Lecture 8: Passing options to Event Handlers

Lecture 9: Cleaning up View

Chapter 4: Collections

Lecture 1: Creating Collections

Lecture 2: Working with Collections

Lecture 3: Connecting to Server

Lecture 4: Events in Collection

Lecture 5: Customizing Collections

Chapter 5: Collection Views

Lecture 1: Working with Collection Views

Lecture 2: Events in Collection Views

Chapter 6: Routers & History

Lecture 1: Using Router and History

Lecture 2: Advanced Routing configuration

Chapter 7: Working with Forms in BackboneJs

Lecture 1: Creating Forms in BackboneJs using views

Lecture 2: Editing an existing item using Form

Chapter 8: Organizing our Application Code

Lecture 1: Naming our classes

Lecture 2: Reference classes with Namespace

Lecture 3: Handling Links

Lecture 4: Object initialization

Lecture 5: Making our model readonly

Chapter 9: Project – Creating a Todolist application

Lecture 1: Basic Setup – Layout

Lecture 2: Defining the Template

Lecture 3: Creating a TodoItem

Lecture 4: Editing an Item

Lecture 5: Marking an item complete

Lecture 6: Filtering All,Pending and Completed Items

Lecture 7: Deleting an Item

Chapter 10: Externalizing our Templates

Lecture 1: Externalizing our Templates – Using Script Tag

Lecture 2: Externalizing our Templates – RequireJS approach

Lecture 3: Externalizing our Templates – Grunt – Precompile Templates

Chapter 11: Conclusion & Code Download

Lecture 1: Conclusion & Code Download