Andrija Jambrović

Why you should use

Marionette.js

explained on an legacy app re-write to a product

and this is my Boss.

Together we help people

solve their online problems.

I work in

The Solvers

Topics

Backbone.js
Marionette.js
Rewrite overview
Numbers!
Lessons learned and misc. tips
Questions

In the begining...

In the begining V2

How did we end up here???

Backbone.js

Backbone.js is a lightweight JavaScript library that adds structure to your client-side code. It makes it easy to manage and decouple concerns in your application, leaving you with code that is more maintainable in the long term.

Addy Osmani, Backbone fundamentals

Backbone provides a minimal set of data-structuring (Models, Collections) and user interface (Views, URLs) primitives that are helpful when building dynamic applications using JavaScript. It’s not opinionated, meaning you have the freedom and flexibility to build the best experience for your web application how you see fit. You can either use the prescribed architecture it offers out of the box or extend it to meet your requirements.

The library doesn’t focus on widgets or replacing the way you structure objects - it just supplies you with utilities for manipulating and querying data in your application. Backbone also doesn’t prescribe a specific template engine. While you are free to use the micro-templating offered by Underscore.js (Backbone’s only hard dependency), views can bind to HTML constructed using your templating solution of choice.

Models

Collections

Routers

Events

Views

Zombies!

and zombie remedy!!

Backbone Wrapup

Marionette.js - El Framework de Backbone!

MarionetteJS — formerly known as Backbone.Marionette — builds on top of Backbone’s event-driven architecture, and adds a myriad of tools for building larger, more structured Backbone applications while implementing a lot of functionality that is commonly used across most applications. As its creator, Derick Bailey, said himself: Marionette “make[s] your Backbone.js apps dance with a composite application architecture!”

- Joseph Zimmerman, Better Backbone Applications with MarionetteJS