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title = "Backbone.js Essentials - Jeremy Walker"
date = 2016-04-26
updated = 2021-02-12

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tags = ["books", "jeremy walker", "backbone.js", "javascript", "reviews", 
"web development", "it", "stars:3", "published:2015"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25979896-backbone-js-essentials):
Construct top-notch web applications by mastering the powerful tools provided
by Backbone.js Gain insights into how to simplify data management and create
single-page web applications with powerful user interfaces This is a
fast-paced guide on how to test, document, and leverage third-party libraries,
and helps you get the most out of Backbone.js.

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This is the second book about Backbone and, honestly, the more I read, the
less I understand about it; but I believe that's absolutely only my fault.

Although the book explains each of the Backbone classes in deep, it never
really connects one to another. It seriously lack a whole description on how
to build an app from start to finish. Even if you know everything about
collections and models (and that they represent a table and a record,
respectively), how to create a View and how to route things around, you
seriously lack the idea behind connecting one to another -- although Views are
shown using Models directly, it should actually go on how to draw several
models from a collection in a single step, for example.

So, although good for understanding Backbone classes, it lacks on the general
*building* of a Backbone app.