Ever wondered how JavaScript was created and how it became the world’s most popular programming language?From its early days ...

“Oof, Backbone.js 1.1.0 makes some very core changes to View construction for option parsing. Massive incompatibility change. Don't get why.” ...

Backbone.js is one of the smallest and easiest-to-understand MVC frameworks for JavaScript applications. It has become quite popular, as evidenced by the number of blog posts about it in the past few ...

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 ...

The Practical Client Integrating JavaScript with TypeScript (and Backbone and Knockout) Peter looks at how to call a JavaScript function from your TypeScript code and do it in a type-safe way. Along ...

Backone.js' router supports this functionality using HTML5's new history API, falling back to a URL hash when not supported. Backbone.js 1.0 brings a few changes compared to the 0.9 series.

So, we have our main views which are pretty much just different pages; go to a backbone route, show corresponding view. Now the argument is over how we render it.

Knockout, another JavaScript library, uses a different model than Backbone for getting data to and from the page. With Knockout you declaratively tie the properties on an object holding your data (a ...