Backbone is a powerful library for building client-side web applications, but its flexibility comes with a cost. Most real world applications are far more complex than the typical “To Do List” examples and tutorials, but Backbone provides little guidance on how to manage the structure and complexity of such applications. With this class, we’ll explore some common techniques for managing this complexity, and come up with a few ideas of our own!

Prerequisites
This is an intermediate to advanced course. Students should have a solid 
understanding of JavaScript and HTML, and experience using Backbone previously.

Student Takeaways
Application Structure
• Modularizing using RequireJS
• Source code structure
• Events
• Build tools

Models
• Validating data
• Relational data
• Presenters

Collections
• Filtering collections

Views
• Child views
• Delegate views
• Specialization
• Template optimizations
• Avoiding memory leaks