Backbone.js 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. Backbone.js was originally extracted from the Rails application DocumentCloud. Philosophically, Backbone is an attempt to discover the minimal set of data-structuring (models and collections) and user interface (views and URLs) primitives that are generally useful when building web applications with JavaScript. Backbone is a library, not a framework. Synchronous events are used as the fundamental building block over constantly polling data. The main pars of Backbone are:
I have been working in the .Net environment for years, and as everyone knows, you generate a style of how you code. A fingerprint so to speak. I decided to take some of my past concepts and ideas and make them available at my own time. Here I can play and try new things :)
This is a Protein Visualization demo project built with Unity3D. It reads and visualizes .pdb files. The current visualizations includes space-filling, balls-and-sticks, licorice and backbone diagrams, and...the seamless transition between these diagrams. The repository is keeping to update.
This is an ASP.NET Core MVC port of Addy Osmani's Book Library sample for Backbone.js and Node.js
Created by Jeremy Ashkenas
Released October 13, 2010