Backbone.js, as mentioned earlier, is another javascript library that helps in developing the interface of various webpages in a lesser amount of time and with a lesser amount of coding hassles. For writings the applications, the developers don’t have to waste their time in writing a complex query and then again debugging it, when the intended output doesn’t come. This library is quite short and yet it gives all the necessary functionalities and that is why the complexities are lesser while using this library. Now let us take a look at some popular properties of backbone.js that is required by the webpage developers.
MVC Architecture
This is the most important property that increases its demands among web developers. The MVC architecture stands for Models Views Controllers. This means the library consists of certain data models, their views to the users and controllers which will control the communication among the models and views.
DOM Structure
This library belongs to javascript. Therefore, it contains all the popular event handlers of javascript that enriches a webpage and makes it look dynamic. These event handlers help in running DOM or document object model structure. This library considers the webpage to be a document and each object in that document to be hierarchically part of that document. All those objects can be run using the event handlers that are a part of this library. Along with the event handlers, there are some other tools that help in doing the routine work of the webpage. These tools are inbuilt methods. The web developers do the routine works of the webpage, for example, removing a model, adding a model, sorting the data, changing the type of the attributes passed through a model and lots more. In addition to that, the web developer can also make a website very attractive and user interactive in nature.
Free Library
Like many of javascript libraries this is free to access. Not only this, the library is open source. Therefore, if you are not satisfied with the events and methods found in one version of backbone.js, not to worry, there are other versions too. You will definitely get one version of the library that will suit most of the requirements of your website. In fact, if your website had a special requirement that the engineers working under your team fulfilled totally by creating a new module, then they can incorporate that module in this library and save it as another extension or a newer version of the library.
Automatic Updates
Suppose the model that is working underneath the website changes due to some modification done to it by the developers, the library helps in changing or updating the HTML of the user interface automatically. You can call this two-way data binding. One big advantage of this feature is that you don’t have to change the user interface, each time a component working in the backend has been updated or modified. This saves a lot of time.
Useful for Mobile Applications
These days, apps are more popular than websites. With one click on a mobile app, a user can know about the weather of their locality, can book hotel rooms or flight tickets or can even know what their children are learning in the school. Therefore, it becomes very handy, if the library that you are using to develop the websites is so lightweight that you can develop a mobile app with it. Backbone.js helps in developing lightweight yet intricate modular apps. The updates for those apps are also easy as the coding in backbone.js is very easy. Due to the presence of MVC architecture, creating various layers in the app is possible. In fact, the app developers always keep some room for improvement in the app by virtue of this MVC architecture. Whenever any modification is necessary the earlier modules are not hampered. Instead of newer modules are built on the strength of the previous modules and the versions are updated.
As can be seen that this library is very good for creating client-side applications and it helps in the development of the applications with minimum hassle. The maintenance of the applications developed by backbone.js is also very easy. Therefore, the backbone js development companies in India are hiring more and more people who have expertise in this library or some other related library of javascript. One word of advice for the new web developers will be that since this library is compatible with jquery, if anybody decides to learn the functionalities of backbone.js, then he or she should delve sometime in learning jquery too.