Backbone: 3 Ways

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Backbone gets used three ways at Coursera: a full campus‑style single‑page front end with a pre‑renderer for SEO, a rewritten Django admin implemented as a generic form‑builder, and incremental course/forum UIs. Tools and patterns named: RequireJS, Underscore, Backbone.Relational, a custom region manager, and partial HTTP PATCH updates so only changed attributes travel. Surprising numbers: roughly 30,000 lines of front‑end code and a past bug that deleted 70,000 students. The rewritten pieces mostly work and speed editing and reuse.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:56WHY USE A FRAMEWORK?
3. 4:15Backbone Lightweight Model View Controller framework
4. 6:35The Backbone Backend
5. 11:34Backbone & jQuery
6. 27:05The Router Determines what models/collections are valid URLS based on groups in cookie.
7. 29:25Course Admin
8. 39:13Keep your options open

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