Give Your Apps a Backbone(.js) As the internet gets smarter and smarter and JavaScript starts piling up on web pages, we need to learn to organize our code. The days of filling the global namespace with all the functions we can think of are long over and have become far too difficult to maintain. Along with many other design patterns , the MVC (model, view, controller) pattern can bring order to the chaotic spaghetti of your JavaScript code. Right now, the de facto JavaScript MVC framework library is Backbone.js. What is Backbone.js? Developing a Modular JavaScript Application With RequireJS and Backbone.js... Backbone.js Tutorials. JavaScript Architecture: Backbone.js Routers. Updated Aug 11, 2012 to reflect current library versions.
In JavaScript Architecture: Backbone.js Views we discussed how to build dynamic apps that change views on the fly using JavaScript. Because view-switching is done without reloading the page or transferring control to a separate page, these are called single-page applications.