Backbone Tutorials

This site is by no means the definitive guide to backbone.js and all corrections and contributions are welcome. Make sure to checkout the backbone boilerplate which works off the concepts here and much more! - Thomas Davis

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Beginner

• Why would you use Backbone.js? » Thomas Davis
• What is a model? » Thomas Davis
• What is a view? » Thomas Davis
• What is a router? » Thomas Davis
• What is a collection? » Thomas Davis

Intermediate

• Organizing your application using Modules (require.js) » Thomas Davis
• Cross-domain Backbone.js with sessions using CORS » Thomas Davis
• Lightweight Infinite Scrolling using Twitter API » Thomas Davis
• Simple example - Node.js, Restify, MongoDb and Mongoose » Thomas Davis

Cool Libraries

• Vault - Database API written in Scala
• Argonaut - JSON Library written in Scala

External Tutorials

• Backbone.js Tutorial – by noob for noobs
• Organizing Your Backbone.js Application with Modules
• Backbone.js and socket.io