The objective is to introduce the concept of single page applications, why it is useful and to demonstrate the usefulness of a framework like Backbone.js with a simple application while coding in Coffeescript.

Outline

The session would introduce Backbone.js and Coffeescript to audience via simple and easy to understand application. We will be building a simple application hands on while we introduce various concepts of Backbone.js such as Models, Collections, Views, Router and Backbone.sync while coding with what I understand are the best practices for organizing client side code.

Speaker bio

I have built several web applications on Ruby on Rails. Although these applications claim to be written in Ruby, they have more javascript code than Ruby. Initially I started out detesting Javascript and slowly fell in love with the language after reading Douglas Crockford’s Javascript the Good Parts. Later I discovered CoffeeScript and instantly fell in love with it. I have built a few applications on Backbone.js and Faye to build single page responsive web applications that never need to be refreshed and are accessible at the same time. I wish to share some of my learnings I gathered while building these applications.