Backbone.js, Jasmine and Rails: The Lust Story

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A Rails app called Blog Mate moves its front end to backbone and adds jasmine tests, cutting a lot of custom JS and duplicated save/update/destroy code. The concrete win is using the events module so multiple views auto-update without wiring views into models, and switching to backbone models resolves REST syncing and removes manual id/callback bugs that only showed outside development. Tests use jasmine fixtures and stubbed server calls. Result: tighter organization, fewer lines, and working end-to-end single-page behavior.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:56Blog Mate project
3. 7:05JavaScript challenges
4. 9:11Custom patterns limits
5. 13:52Backbone.js solution
6. 16:42Backbone views
7. 17:47Backbone models and Rails
8. 21:20Backbone events
9. 22:45Backbone collections
10. 24:30Testing with Jasmine
11. 25:54Backbone routes
12. 26:35Why Backbone matters
13. 27:37Benefits and future

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