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title = "Backbone.js Essentials - Jeremy Walker"
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date = 2016-04-26
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tags = ["books", "jeremy walker", "backbone.js", "javascript", "reviews",
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"web development", "it", "3 stars"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25979896-backbone-js-essentials):
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Construct top-notch web applications by mastering the powerful tools provided
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by Backbone.js Gain insights into how to simplify data management and create
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single-page web applications with powerful user interfaces This is a
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fast-paced guide on how to test, document, and leverage third-party libraries,
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and helps you get the most out of Backbone.js.
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{{ stars(stars=3) }}
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This is the second book about Backbone and, honestly, the more I read, the
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less I understand about it; but I believe that's absolutely only my fault.
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Although the book explains each of the Backbone classes in deep, it never
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really connects one to another. It seriously lack a whole description on how
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to build an app from start to finish. Even if you know everything about
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collections and models (and that they represent a table and a record,
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respectively), how to create a View and how to route things around, you
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seriously lack the idea behind connecting one to another -- although Views are
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shown using Models directly, it should actually go on how to draw several
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models from a collection in a single step, for example.
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So, although good for understanding Backbone classes, it lacks on the general
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*building* of a Backbone app.
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