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A couple of years ago I started developing Echoes Player with Backbone.js, Underscore.js, Bootstrap and Require.js. Recently I migrated the code to use browserify, and i’d like to share the insights from this process.
Read MoreA Journey From Require.js to Browserify
Developing a well structured application wasn’t so straight forward for me when I started. Sure, using Backbone.js, angular.js, require.js contributed some benefits. Overtime, I stepped into automation with grunt.js. I discovered the true beauty in structuring and organising any code base to be modular enough – so both development & production will fit to my coding lifestyle.
Read MoreDecluttering Your Web Application Using angular.js & grunt.js – Part 1
One of the most required features for Echoes Player was auto complete for the search box. After reviewing few plugins, I decided to use jqueryui auto complete plugin, as jquery-ui has been already integrated and loaded to echoes.
The challenge was integrating it seamlessly with Echoes Backbone.Model and the Backbone.View that manages the search view.
Read MoreIntegrating Backbone.View, Backbone.Model & jQuery plugin
In my early days as a developer, even before Backbone.js was released, I was eager to learn about good conventions and best practices for organizing code and workflows.
I knew that somewhere, someone managed to recognize a good pattern that will scale in maintainable code, reusable pieces of code and a good & solid “framework” to place this code.
Overtime, I read few articles & watched several talks about software architecture that are relevant to front end development. In this post, I’m covering a journey I had (and still have) with some of the above as well as the overall front end architecture concept behind my latest project Echoes Media Center along with Backbone.js methodology.
Read MoreBackbone.js for large scale applications – UI Architecture
Backbone.View doesn’t implement the “render” method. According to Backbone’s Documentation:
“Backbone is agnostic with respect to your preferred method of HTML templating”.
So, when it comes to rendering a collection of items (or simply, a backbone collection), there’s a need to implement a method for it. In this post, I’m sharing the best practices I learned when it comes to rendering collections with Backbone.
Read MoreBackbone.View Patterns – rendering a collection