How to set up the backbone .js:-
BackboneJS is very easy to setup and work. This chapter will discuss the download and setup of the BackboneJS Library.
BackboneJS can be used in the following two ways −
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Downloading UI library from its official website.
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Downloading UI library from CDNs.
Downloading the UI library from its official website
As you can see, there are three options for download of this library −
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Development Version − Right click on this button and save as and you get the full source JavaScript library.
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Production Version − Right click on this button and save as and you get the Backbone-min.js library file which is packed and gzipped.
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Edge Version − Right click on this button and save as and you get an unreleased version, i.e., development is going on; hence you need to use it at your own risk.
Dependencies
BackboneJS depends on the following JavaScript files −
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Underscore.js − This is the only hard dependency which needs to be included. You can get it from here.
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jQuery.js − Include this file for RESTful persistence, history support via Backbone.Router and DOM manipulation with Backbone.View. You can get it from here.
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json2.js − Include this file for older Internet Explorer support.
