+++ title = "Instant Backbone.js Application Development - Thomas Hunter II" date = 2016-04-03 category = "review" [taxonomies] tags = ["books", "en-au", "thomas hunter ii"] +++ {{ stars(stars=1) }} 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.