Let's Build a Backbone App!

BohConf April 24, 2012

Jonathan Julian (@jonathanjulian)

This live-coding Rails/Backbone app build took about 90 minutes with step-by-step explanations and Q&A and some discussion. The attendees followed along on their own. It grabs tweets from the Twitter API, and shows them in a page. Everything is done using Backbone; the asset pipeline is used fully. Follow the commits to see what we did:

  • Create Rails 3.2 app
  • Add Backbone.js and reqs to the asset pipeline
  • Build an html page for the app
  • Create a Backbone Model and Collection
  • Create a view
  • Refactor view to use an EJS template
  • Add a demonstration event - click on a row

If you were there, show me your repo! Or make a pull request on this repo to improve the example.

Thanks to everyone who attended and especially those who corrected my errors when I got off track! I hope it was as much fun for you as it was for me!!

CoffeeScript Implementation: https://github.com/spacemunkay/lets-build-a-backbone-coffeescript-app