backbone-boilerplate

I'll write more about it soon. But overall using RequireJS modules. Generally one "class" (Model, Collection, or View) per .js file - though helper classes end up in the same file. Have a different environment for dev vs. production to make dev easy and production fast. In dev handlebars templates are fetched/parsed on the fly. On production they are precompiled. Overall I like most of what's found here: https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate Also using a few base classes and plugins to keep things DRY.

This is very similar to a project I attempted to create called Ember Boilerplate (never released), which was a play on Backbone Boilerplate (https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate) and (https://github.com/backbone-boilerplate/grunt-bbb). Mine failed to be released, because I don't think I addressed the concerns and needs of Ember developers. Very glad someone who is entrenched in the Ember community could provide the same necessities and insight to the same problems I was able to fix for Backbone developers. Tools like Brunch and Yeoman attempt to accomodate all libraries, which is an admirable goal, but I feel like developers who write applications in a specific framework every day are more keen on providing necessary defaults. Perhaps soon we'll have some agreed upon common ground: (CommonJS modules, template pre-compilation

For more complete frameworks around Backbone, try: https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate http://walmartlabs.github.com/thorax/ https://github.com/marionettejs/backbone.marionette https://github.com/chaplinjs/chaplin Outside of Backbone, there's also http://emberjs.com/

Hey guys, Great to see open source, light-weight, backbone based, frameworks =D I am building a mobile application for a project I am working on and for this I have also (after using a lot of other libraries) built my own framework. It consists of 3 packages. 1) sass-ratchet (repo: https://github.com/jocks/sass-ratchet) This is my sass port of ratchet (just starting). It basically adds vendor prefixes, and puts a couple of main colors in a variable, and calculates all colors with the darken() method in sass. I am not really happy with the variable names yet, so expect a lot of change in this repo. 2) jocks (repo: https://github.com/jocks/jocks) (docs: http://jocks.koenschmeets.nl/#!/api) Jocks (JavaScript Blocks) is based on Backbone + MarionetteJS, it allows me to have JavaScript create the DOM elements for me (and keeping a reference to

I also recommend checking out Backbone-Boilerplate for a good skeleton using RequireJS https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate

I'm using Brunch[1] for a current project, and have used Backbone Boilerplate[2] in the past. Brunch is pretty great, though bbb is better hooked up with requirejs out of the box, if you're into that kind of thing. I really want Yeoman to take off, in particular because I really want one of these tools to become the breakout hit. I'd rather everyone be focusing on improving one tool instead of all this effort going diffuse across a bunch of different solutions. I'm a python dev, and I thank the stars that pip became so standard. (Not that this is a direct analog to pip, but pip provides a subset of this functionality when it comes to packaging.) One note: the Ember init is waaaay basic. I know that these are going to be community maintained, but I would have hoped that the Ember generator bundled with this initial release would have inclu

Looks a lot like a customized version of grunt.js -- backbone-boilerplate is another example of a suite of tools built on grunt. https://github.com/cowboy/grunt https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate

Yeah, as a newcomer to Backbone, this has always been something that's thrown me off, including in the otherwise excellent Todo example: http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/docs/todos.html The backbone boilerplate on Github (by tbranyen) has been a useful model to follow: https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate/blob/master...

Yup, https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate/issues/22 Currently anyone can use require.js. Delete the build folder and update the index.html.