Backbone.js is the popular JavaScript Model/View library used for many popular single-page web applications, including USA Today, Rdio and Airbnb.

The Backbone/Marionette pair won him over. Osan liked the “do-it-yourself,” lightweight nature of Backbone, as opposed to the heavy-handedness of Google’s Angular.js, the front-end framework that ...

Airbnb today announced that it is open sourcing Rendr, its library for running Backbone.js apps seamlessly on both the client and the server. After launching its Chronos cron replacement a few ...

Peter looks at how to call a JavaScript function from your TypeScript code and do it in a type-safe way. Along the way, he dramatically simplifies a Backbone application by integrating Knockout.

This month, I take an initial look at Backbone.js, a very small JavaScript library that has been getting a fair amount of press recently. And, I explain how to build a simple application using ...

Backbone is a popular library for creating MVC/MVVM-like applications in your client. Here's an introduction to Backbone and some best practices for creating a Single-Page Application with TypeScript.

Peter revisits an earlier column on how to display a dynamic dialog box to your browser-based users, this time using the JavaScript library that comes with ASP.NET MVC: Backbone.

&yet has released Ampersand.js, a "non-frameworky" framework for building JavaScript applications, heavily inspired by Backbone.js. Ampersand.js distinguishes itself from Backbone.js primarily by ...