Backbone Workshop

You may have noticed today's web applications involve more than a few lines of JavaScript. You've probably also figured out JavaScript lacks certain…features…that make writing non-trivial applications more challenging. How do we resolve this conundrum? Luckily for us, we can leverage libraries like Backbone add some structure to our code. Backbone brings the concepts of the model view controller pattern we've applied to the server for years to the browser.

In this workshop, we'll introduce the idea of asynchronous user interfaces and show how Backbone helps us write that style of application. We'll work our way up from the bottom building a simple application along the way. We'll create models, we'll use a templating library (or two) and we'll also explore Underscore - a JavaScript utility belt you can use right now today without committing to building MVC style web applications.

If you're struggling to manage an increasing amount of JavaScript or you want to build more responsive web applications, this workshop can help!

About Nathaniel Schutta

Nathaniel T. Schutta is a software architect and Java Champion focused on cloud computing, developer happiness and building usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written multiple books, appeared in countless videos and many podcasts. He’s also a seasoned speaker who regularly presents at worldwide conferences, No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, meetups, universities, and user groups. In addition to his day job, Nate is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches students to embrace (and evaluate) technical change. Driven to rid the world of bad presentations, he coauthored the book Presentation Patterns with Neal Ford and Matthew McCullough, and he also published Thinking Architecturally and Responsible Microservices available from O’Reilly. His latest book, Fundamentals of Software Engineering, is currently available in early release.

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