jashkenas/backbone

Give your JS App some Backbone with Models, Views, Collections, and Events

Source code at GitHub http://backbonejs.org

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Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy 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 application over a RESTful JSON interface.

For Docs, License, Tests, pre-packed downloads, and everything else, really, see: https://backbonejs.org

To suggest a feature or report a bug: https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/issues

For questions on working with Backbone or general discussions: [security policy]!(SECURITY.md), https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/backbone.js, https://matrix.to/#/#jashkenas_backbone:gitter.im or https://groups.google.com/g/backbonejs

Backbone is an open-sourced component of DocumentCloud: https://github.com/documentcloud

Testing powered by SauceLabs: https://saucelabs.com

Many thanks to our contributors: https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/graphs/contributors

Special thanks to Robert Kieffer for the original philosophy behind Backbone. https://github.com/broofa

This project adheres to a [code of conduct]!(CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md). By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.