Mastering Backbone.js

Summary

We started by describing, in a general way, how a Backbone application works. It describes two main parts: a root application and subapplications. The root application provides a common infrastructure to other smaller and focused applications that we call subapplications.

Subapplications should be loose coupled with other subapplications and should own its resources such as views, controllers, routers, and so on. A subapplication manages a small part of the system with a well-focused business value and the communication between subapplications and infrastructure application is made through an events-driven bus with Backbone.Events.

The user interacts with the application using views that a subapplication renders. A subapplication controller ...