Marionette heavily basing myself on the example provided by david sulc on his book a gentle introduction to backbone. Marionette will never get in the way of you and your code. We will build a very simple todo list that we can add items to and remove items from. Who this book is for this book is for web developers who have a basic, reasonably thorough understanding of the marionetteframework.
Sign up for a free github account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. I think this simple approach to components in marionette can go a long way toward building modular applications. Stack overflow for teams is a private, secure spot for you and your coworkers to find and share information. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of web authors and. A gentle introduction, ive taken the contact manager application developed in that book and rebuilt it using requirejs to load dependencies. Marionette gentle introduction is good, but this is too simple to use backbone on the real world. Structuring backbone code with requirejs and marionette modules was a natural progression after reading davids first book on marionette and very worthwhile. On a recent project, i helped build a large single page application using marionette. I have decided to write a quick introduction for those trying to grasp the mechanics behind it.
Contribute to fsbackbonebase development by creating an account on github. Weve learned that components allow us to reduce the amount of code we need to write and afford us more scaleable applications. Jan 10, 2014 youd be better off just reading through the documentation on the projects github page. I have been reading this book i tried the first example, but it doesnt render the templates, it only shows the text by default. Sign in sign up instantly share code, notes, and snippets. Deferred objects vs backbone events for view updates in marionette. In the chapter handling data latency, the author david sulc uses jquery. Marionette was created to alleviate a lot of the growing pains of backbone development. It is the little brother to bbedit, a leading professional html and text editor. Backbone marionette js a gentle introduction by jose.
The requisite libraries and utilities are introduced with indepth examples and best. Marionette is a great relativelynew framework built on top of backbone. It takes a lot of the most common use cases of backbone and hides that work for you, making your job much. Stop spending more time thinking about your framework than your app. Marionette community is home to the most welcoming and vibrant discussions in the backbone ecosystem. The event binder facilitates the binding and unbinding of events from objects that extend backbone. Marionette spa application with visual studio 20, and in particular, write marionette javascript using typescript. The book and referenced git commits all use marionette 2. Marionette extensions for large scale application architecture.
Backbonemarionette js session handling example github. So, once you start getting into more advanced applications, its no longer so simple. While i love the simplicity of the backbone framework and source code, i was looking for something a little more opinionated to build my view layer on top of, specifically something that would help with. Created by jarrod overson and derick bailey using backbone. Marionette which provides many niceties to help you build complex backbone. Fast text based video editing, node electron os x desktop app, with backbone front end. Developing backbone applications by osmani is a good read, and he introduces rest api and marionette also but unfortunately not together. I am learning marionette backbone with the excellent book backbone. The library was converted to es6 and organized for easier contribution. How do i give marionette templates data attributes. I see no good reason to choose this book over either of those other two. Version control system means that its goalis to track and record every change in. Mnobject backbone radio the dom api dom interactions prerendered content class events entity events marionette events features routing in marionette.
Please let us know if you encounter any issues so we can resolve them and help us continue work on marionette. Should you need to use an earlier version of marionette, refer to the marionettepre. Test your javascript, css, html or coffeescript online with jsfiddle code editor. David sulc has created a small series of blog posts that introduce marionette and some of its pieces. We officially distribute via npm, bower, and static builds on this site. The main goal of marionette v3 was to clean up and simplify the api. Give your js app some backbone with models, views, collections, and events jashkenasbackbone. Advanced backbone patterns and techniques backbone. Being already comfortable with requirejs i was more interested in how marionette modules were tied in and these were explained really well. Gentle introduction to dependent types with idris boro sitnikovski leanpub account or valid. Youd be better off just reading through the documentation on the projects github page. So i beleve it will be better to keep marionette core as an extension of backbone. Getting started with backbone marionette oreilly media. Marionette application part 1 posted on may 6, 2012 by david sulc in previous posts, i introduced you to backbone.
Now that youve read the gentle introduction book and have a good grasp on marionette fundamentals, take the next step in your journey. For more background see this write up on source introducing autoedit as. It makes unbinding events, even with anonymous callback functions, easy. I think the best books out there for learning marionette are better backbone applications with marionettejs. I have an element that is rendering a template that is supposed to be tabs. A guide to simplifying vmbased development on a mac. See our upgrade notes for the differences between v3 and v4. Marionette and rest webapi part 1 march 22, 2014 23 comments this article part 1 and part 2 aims to walk the reader through setting up a backbone.
A gentle introduction is an excellent book by david sulc, that i used to gently introduce me to marionette. If you have multiple workers, the requestresponse mechanism can provide an abstraction from which one get the job done and maybe some adding some load balancing. In addition, you also receive the book covering marionette 1. Is there a great example tutorial of how to use backbone. Contribute to davidfreeprogrammingbooks development by creating an account on github.
Following along with git this book is a step by step guide to building a complete marionette. I am creating a single page application spa using backbone. Building modular and component driven architecture in backbone. My feeling is that when an object is expecting something from another specific object, the decoupling is hard. Have a large unruly code base that you can not simply rewrite. Youd also need to get speech to text keys or have the gentle open. When i open the console, the app contactmanager exits and its. Welcome to the getting started guide for backbone marionette.
As a prerequisite, knowledge of javascript and a working knowledge of backbone. I am only a beginner also and would love suggestions and tips to improve my code. Marionette is a composite application library for backbone. A framework for easily creating beautiful presentations using html. This upgrade guide will go through the major changes and describe how to change your application to accommodate them. Marionette handles the boilerplate code, letting you focus on your applications specifics. Due to popular demand from my wellreceived previous book on marionette backbone. Structuring backbone code with requirejs and marionette. Gentle introduction by sulc, is also pretty nice until he gets to restructuring his app with modules.
Marionette 4 introduces a number of breaking changes. Aug 23, 2016 aug 23 2016 inbackbone marionette learning v3 marionette. An introduction to backbone marionette by len smith. The best part of the backbone marionette framework is the ability to provide this separation of concerns using the mvc pattern. After reading this tutorial you will be able to write your own marionette applications from scratch. If you are a web application developer interested in using backbone marionette for a reallife project, then this book is for you. May 23, 2012 david sulc has created a small series of blog posts that introduce marionette and some of its pieces. It is designed to demonstrate a full marionette application for learning purposes and uses local storage for persistence.