README.md

Table of Contents

Day 27 - Backbone: Introduction, Views part 1

Topics

• Build tool (examples: Grunt, Gulp, Broccoli, Webpack)
• Webpack setup
• Backbone Introduction
  • What and why is MVC?
  • Dependencies
  • _.extend()
• Backbone Views Part 1
  • Views are constructors that create HTML elements with special features
  • Backbone.View.extend()
  • Defining
    • tagName
    • className
    • initialize
    • render
  • Instantiating
    • new ViewName()
  • Basic properties
    • el
    • $el

Notes

Code

Code we wrote in class today

Assignments

• Backbone T-shirt Views