An Application Architecture Using Backbone.js
Chaplin is an architecture for JavaScript applications using the Backbone.js library. The code is derived from moviepilot.com, a large single-page application.
Key Features
- CoffeeScript class hierarchies as well as object composition
- Module encapsulation and lazy-loading using AMD modules
- Cross-module communication using the Mediator and Publish/Subscribe patterns
- Controllers for managing individual UI views
- Rails-style routes which map URLs to controller actions
- A route dispatcher and a top-level view manager
- Extended model, view and collection classes to avoid repetition and enforce conventions
- Strict memory management and object disposal
- A collection view for easy and intelligent list rendering
