/springone-backbone

My talk for SpringOne 2013 Santa Clara

Primary LanguageJavaScript

About

This is a talk about why you may need to use a tool like Backbone to create a rich client side application. Concepts apply universally to other frameworks, but are illustrated with a Backbone context.

View the slides

To view the slides, simply point a web server to the root directory.

# After running this under Python 3.x, open: http://localhost:8000/.
python -m http.server

Writing custom slides

  • Change the talk title in package.json.
  • Remove the Markdown files in content/slides and add your own slides.
  • Update the content/order.json file to reflect the order.
  • Build the slides out to the index.html file using the instructions below.
  • Run your slides using the instructions above.

Building the slide deck

# Install the dependencies.
npm install

# Ensure `grunt-cli` is installed globally.  You may need to use sudo to gain
# elevated privileges.
npm install -g grunt-cli

# Build the slides and run the slide server.
grunt

License

MIT