Using Backbone with CakePHP
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Backbone.js provides structure for web applications by giving models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to existing APIs through a RESTful JSON interface. The presentation demonstrated integrating Backbone.js with CakePHP using a todo list demo and discussed CakePHP JavaScript helpers and CoffeeScript. Questions were taken at the end.
Using Backbone with CakePHP
- 1. Using Backbone with CakePHP @mackstar
- 2. About Me Richard McIntyre • First found CakePHP community in 2009 at CakePHP Matsuri in Tokyo • Lived in Japan for 15 years • Freelancer • Currently at BBC
- 3. Sorry
- 5. Javascript
- 6. Devices
- 8. How we may have done it before
- 13. Pile of shit
- 14. MVC - eureka
- 16. MVC - ish (Kind of)
- 17. Angular.js
- 21. Underscore.js
- 22. Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.
- 23. Model Collection View Router
- 24. Todo Demo
- 27. Coffee-Script
- 28. You don’t need to make your apps Single page apps (use where needed)
- 29. Questions? github.com/mackstar/ CakeFest-2012-Backbone-Plugins