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Backbone

Your Backbone Can't Save You Now: Why We Use Backbone Marionette

The big ball of mud is a well understood software anti-pattern, and we’ve all experienced it at some point in our careers (sometimes on the receiving end but all too often as the creator). There is never a specific event where we can look back and say, “this is what caused the problems we’re experiencing...

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The Right Time for Structure: Retrofitting Backbone.js to a jQuery Application

It started innocently enough. We had a story to make a few UI changes to a small JavaScript app. There would be no functionality changes, so it was going to be an easy morning. Maybe even an early lunch? When we fired up Vim we saw that lunch was going to be a bit later than expected and that we...

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