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title = "Instant Backbone.js Application Development - Thomas Hunter II"
date = 2016-04-03
updated = 2021-02-12

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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18301513-instant-backbone-js-application-development):
Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering
immediate results.

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Got this in a promotion, expecting to understand why I should learn backbone.

And the problem is, although the book goes into building a SPA and tells every
single step, it severely lacks the "why" you should do such things. Why you
should create a "Routes" property on your app; why you have collections AND
models, why Backbone can't infer the collections by the models and so on.

In the end, I think I learnt more about LoDash than Backbone.