Can someone give me a birds eye view of backbone, nodejs etc.
How do these different technologies/frameworks fit together.
Meaning, if I use nodejs, do I have to use backbone?
What about cofeescript, does it work with backbone?
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Can someone give me a birds eye view of backbone, nodejs etc.
How do these different technologies/frameworks fit together.
Meaning, if I use nodejs, do I have to use backbone?
What about cofeescript, does it work with backbone?
Node.js allows you to write server-side javascript : the code that reads an HTTP requests, and produces a response is written un javascript and executed by Google V8.
Why would you want to write your server side code in JS ?
Backbone.js is a client-side MVC framework written in Javascript. It allows you to write models, views, routes and link all of that. So that if your model changes, the views reflect those changes immediately. In a backbone.js application, you typically have only one HTML page that “just loads” the Backbone.js code you wrote, and this code generates the HTML the users sees based on the content of the backbone model.
CoffeeScript is just another way to write javascript. Instead of writing plain javascript, you can write CoffeeScript instead and use a translator that will convert your CoffeeScript code into javascript. You then execute the generated javascript.
Benefits are :
– You may prefer CoffeeScript syntax
– CoffeeScript translator generates quite good javascript
But in the end, it’s just a matter of preference
How does all of this come together ?
You can write a Node.js web application (really, just an API) in CoffeeScript (or JavaScript), that would feed JSON data to a Backbone.js application that you created (in Javascript or in CoffeeScript or both).
All of your development would be done in Javascript/CoffeeScript and in the end, you Backbone.js client app would simply be another user of you Node.js API.