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Backbone Boilerplate Documentation

This boilerplate is the product of much research and frustration. Existing boilerplates freely modify Backbone core, lack a build process, and are very prescriptive; this boilerplate changes that.

Organize your application in a logical filesystem, develop your Models/Collections/Views/Routers inside modules, and build knowing you have efficient code that will not bottleneck your users.

Getting started

• Getting started overview
• Installation
• Running examples

Configuration

• Overview
• Templating options

How to structure

• Concept of a module
• AMD with RequireJS

Advanced Concepts

• Testing
• Build tool
  • Overview
  • Typical workflow
  • Custom Boilerplate tasks
    • Clean
    • JST
    • MinCSS
    • RequireJS
    • Server
• Popular HTTP server configuration
  • Node.js
  • Apache
  • IIS
  • nginx

Plugins

A second of how to install, configure, and use various forms of plugins.

Miscellaneous

• License
• How to Contribute
• FAQ
• Relative path setup notes