Ribcage for your Backbone
Ribcage is a set of mixins and libraries to make developing Backbone applications easier and more strucutred. It's also a set of opinions on how you should develop a web application.
Ribcage depends on Backbone (surprised?) and jQuery, and also two more jQuery
plugins if you use the SoapModel model. These are:
Ribcage modules are in UMD format. This means that you can use them either as
AMD modules (with loaders like RequireJS), or load
them using <script> tags.
When used with <script> tags, the modules will do basic dependency checking,
so you will get exceptions in many cases.
When using Ribcage as AMD modules, you can either require the entire Ribcage
using the ribacge/ribcage module, or you can require indivudal parts by
loading them as separate modules. Note that some Ribcage modules may depend on
other Ribcage modules (e.g., TemplateView depends on BaseView).
If you are using volo, you can safely install ribcage
using the usual add command:
volo add foxbunny/ribcage
It will be installed into lib/ribcage directory, and lib/ribcage.js module
will be created as an alias for lib/ribcage/main.js.
The CoffeeScript sources are located in the src directory, and are not
installed by volo. If you watn to use the CoffeeScript version instead, simply
manually copy them into your project.
No, there are none and there will never be. Why minify a single component when there's a whole project to be minified?
Until we set up a proper documentation page, please look at the CoffeeScript sources. They are well-documented and the final documentation will be generated from them anyway. (Incidentally, if you know of a good documentation generator that actually works, please let me know.)
Please report bugs to Ribcage's GitHub issue tracker.