Backbone.js provides structure for web applications by giving models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to existing APIs through a RESTful JSON interface. The presentation demonstrated integrating Backbone.js with CakePHP using a todo list demo and discussed CakePHP JavaScript helpers and CoffeeScript. Questions were taken at the end.

1. Using Backbone with
CakePHP
@mackstar

2. About Me
Richard McIntyre
• First found CakePHP community in
2009 at CakePHP Matsuri in Tokyo
• Lived in Japan for 15 years
• Freelancer
• Currently at BBC

3. Sorry

4. github.com/mackstar/
CakeFest-2012-Backbone-Plugins

5. Javascript

6. Devices

8. How we may have
done it before

13. Pile of shit

14. MVC - eureka

15. Object Orientated

16. MVC - ish
(Kind of)

17. Angular.js

20. http://
backbonejs.org/

21. Underscore.js

22. Backbone.js gives structure to web
applications by providing models
with key-value binding and custom
events, collections with a rich API of
enumerable functions, views with
declarative event handling, and
connects it all to your existing API
over a RESTful JSON interface.

23. Model
Collection
View
Router

24. Todo Demo

25. https://github.com/
mackstar/CakePHP-
Backbone-Todos

26. CakePHP JS Helpers

27. Coffee-Script

28. You don’t need to
make your apps
Single page apps
(use where needed)

29. Questions?
github.com/mackstar/
CakeFest-2012-Backbone-Plugins