Wednesday Aug 5, 2015

Backbone In Depth

• Sometimes it's unclear why some things are capitalized and others are not.
• We HAVE to create an instance of the component before we can use it
• Still not sure what _.extend does
  • Pull up in annotated source
  • Build two objects on the white board
  • Pretend to do _.extend
• Is there anything in Backbone that 'replaces' jQuery / JavaScript?
  • No, Backbone USES jQuery
• As far as JS is concerned all Jquery, underscore, backbone and other tools are just there to make JS function better and more user friendly?
• How often is Backbone used in the "real world"? -
• Model vs Collection vs View
• Glue Code...?
• Scoping Queries and efficiency
  • $ vs $el
• Not sure what this REST/RESTful API stuff means
  • What is REST?
  • Is REST part of AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
• Does backbone just provide a streamlined way to pull, modify, add, and remove data?
• What is a promise object? (.then)

Review

Objects and Instances

Backbone Fundamentals

Model

Collection

View

REST

.fetch