In this post, we have prepared a curated top list of reading recommendations for beginners and experienced. This hand-picked list of the best Backbone books and tutorials can help fill your brain this May and ensure you’re getting smarter. We have also mentioned the brief introduction of each book based on the relevant Amazon or Reddit descriptions.
- Lightweight Django: Using REST, WebSockets, and Backbone (2014)
- Developing Backbone.js Applications: Building Better JavaScript Applications (2013)
- Node.js, MongoDB, and AngularJS Web Development (Developer’s Library) (2014)
- Full Stack JavaScript: Learn Backbone.js, Node.js and MongoDB (2015)
- Pro Single Page Application Development: Using Backbone.js and ASP.NET (2014)
- Full Stack Web Development with Backbone.js: Scalable Application Design (2014)
- Node.js, MongoDB (2017)
- Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices (2014)
- Backbone.js Essentials (2015)
- Backbone.js Testing (2013)
- SPA Design and Architecture: Understanding Single Page Web Applications (2015)
Lightweight Django: Using REST, WebSockets, and Backbone (2014)
How can you take advantage of the Django framework to integrate complex client-side interactions and real-time features into your web applications? Through a series of rapid application development projects, this hands-on book shows experienced Django developers how to include REST APIs, WebSockets, and client-side MVC frameworks such as Backbone.js into new or existing projects. Learn how to make the most of Django’s decoupled design by choosing the components you need to build the lightweight
Author(s): Julia Elman, Mark Lavin
Developing Backbone.js Applications: Building Better JavaScript Applications (2013)
If you want to build your site’s frontend with the single-page application (SPA) model, this hands-on book shows you how to get the job done with Backbone.js. You’ll learn how to create structured JavaScript applications, using Backbone’s own flavor of model-view-controller (MVC) architecture. Start with the basics of MVC, SPA, and Backbone, then get your hands dirty building sample applications—a simple Todo list app, a RESTful book library app, and a modular app with Backbone and RequireJS.
Author(s): Addy Osmani
Node.js, MongoDB, and AngularJS Web Development (Developer’s Library) (2014)
Node.js, MongoDB and AngularJS Web Development.The definitive guide to building using the MEAN stack to build web applications. Also known as the MEAN stack, Node.js, MongoDB, and AngularJS are three new web development technologies that together provide an easy to implement, fully integrated web development stack.
Author(s): Brad Dayley
Full Stack JavaScript: Learn Backbone.js, Node.js and MongoDB (2015)
This is a hands on book which introduces you to agile JavaScript web and mobile software development using the latest cutting edge front end and back end technologies including Node js MongoDB Backbone js Parse com Heroku and Windows Azure Practical examples include building multiple versions of the Chat app jQuery Parse com JS REST API Backbone and Parse com JS SDK Backbone and Node js Backbone and Node js MongoDB The Cha…
Author(s): Azat Mardan
Pro Single Page Application Development: Using Backbone.js and ASP.NET (2014)
One of the most important and exciting trends in web development in recent years is the move towards single page applications, or SPAs. Instead of clicking through hyperlinks and waiting for each page to load, the user loads a site once and all the interactivity is handled fluidly by a rich JavaScript front end. If you come from a background in ASP.NET development, you’ll be used to handling most interactions on the server side.
Author(s): Gil Fink, Ido Flatow
Full Stack Web Development with Backbone.js: Scalable Application Design (2014)
Learn how to build a full-stack application with Backbone.js by taking advantage of JavaScript modules, workflow automation, and Backbone’s interface building blocks. With this practical guide, author Patrick Mulder takes experienced backend developers and JavaScript programmers through the steps necessary to create a fully functional single-page application. Backbone’s rich ecosystem of plugins makes applications easier to design and scale, but knowing which tools to use for your project can be tricky.
Author(s): Patrick Mulder
Node.js, MongoDB (2017)
Node.js is a leading server-side programming environment, MongoDB is the most popular NoSQL database, and Angular is the leading framework for MVC-based front-end development. Together, they provide an easy-to-implement, fully integrated web development stack that allows web programmers to create high-performance sites and applications built completely in JavaScript, from server to client. Updated for Angular 2, Angular 4, and subsequent versions, this new edition of Node.js, MongoDB
Author(s): Brad Dayley, Brendan Dayley
Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices (2014)
A onestop guide to best practices and design patterns when building applications using Backtbone.js. This book is for JavaScript developers who work with Backbone.js and want to learn the best design patterns to develop complex web applications. Basic knowledge of Backbone.js and JavaScript is essential. Backbone.js is a super light framework that allows you to structure your JavaScript codes in an MV* fashion. This framework is an excellent tool when it comes to creating an organized
Author(s): Swarnendu De
Backbone.js Essentials (2015)
Build amazing high-performance web applications using Backbone.js. If you are a developer with baseline JavaScript proficiency and are familiar with the jQuery library, then this book is ideal for you.
Author(s): Jeremy Walker
Backbone.js Testing (2013)
If you dread the business of testing JavaScript and Backbone.js web applications, this book is your guardian angel. In easy stages and lots of examples it takes you through the whole testing situation, introducing you to best practice and current techniques.
Author(s): Ryan Roemer
SPA Design and Architecture: Understanding Single Page Web Applications (2015)
SPA Design and Architecture teaches you the design and development skills you need to create SPAs. Includes an overview of MV* frameworks, unit testing, routing, layout management, data access, pub/sub, and client-side task automation. This book is full of easy-to-follow examples you can apply to the library or framework of your choice. The next step in the development of web-based software, single-page web applications deliver the sleekness and fluidity of a native desktop application in a browser.
Author(s): Emmit Scott
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Best Backbone Books You Must Read
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some Backbone books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Testing Backbone.js
Author(s): Roemer, Ryan
ID: 2417146, Publisher: Packt Publishing, Limited, Year: July 2013, Size: 2 Mb, Format: epub
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain
Author(s): Anita Sethi
ID: 3195585, Publisher: Bloomsbury UK (Trade), Year: 2021, Size: 757 Kb, Format: epub
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain: WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION
Author(s): Anita Sethi
ID: 3416571, Publisher: Bloomsbury Wildlife, Year: 2021, Size: 16 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are absolutely record-breakers according to The Wall Street Journal, others are drafted by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.