Backbone boilerplate

The US company Bocoup, like many other web developers, constantly uses the well-known “bulletproof” template to create HTML5 HTML5 Boilerplate sites. However, Bocoup employees decided not only to use, but to contribute to the common cause and rolled out for public use a no less conceptual thing - Backbone Boilerplate , a set of best tools and techniques for creating Backbone.js applications.

Right out of the box we get:

• Backbone, Underscore and jQuery, all based on HTML5 Boilerplate.
• Windows / Mac / Linux tool for precompiling templates, linking and minifying all libraries, application code and CSS.
• Easy node.js web server
• Numerous backbone code snippets to make life easier.

Backbone Boilerplate has a logical and elegant file system (separate code, auxiliary files, tests, builds) and it is possible to create your own Models / Collections / Views / Routers classes inside modules.

The developers say that the project appeared as a result of their long attempts to work with other templates: it turned out that in some there is no build process, others impose unnecessary restrictions. The new Backbone Boilerplate is designed to correct the situation and may well become canonical, which became the same HTML5 Boilerplate.