Developing Backbone.js Applications

Re:Developing Backbone.js Applications by camus on Thursday December 27, 2012 @02:13PM (#4974636)

I agree it's important for book about client dev to be backend agnostic , and too many books on js clientside frameworks contains unnecessary parts about server side development with nodeJS.

However, nodeJS makes it easy to quickly build a thin backend for the purpose of making the frontend work quickly, furthermore , nodeJS is becoming a tool that is really necessary in frontend development , you often need a buildstep before deploying code on the server ( minif , concat , ... ) , so a little chapiter on node makes sense in my opinion ;)

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Re:Developing Backbone.js Applications by oinksoft on Thursday December 27, 2012 @02:56PM (#4974740)

  nodeJS is becoming a tool that is really necessary in
  frontend development you often need a buildstep before
  deploying code on the server ( minif , concat , ... )

Certainly there are minifiers like Uglify that are Node.js packages, but I wouldn't go so far as to claim that Node.js is now "necessary" for frontend development. I'd bet an awful lot that YUI Compressor, Google Closure Compiler, even things like jsmin.c are being used much more than similar Node.js-based tools.

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Re:Developing Backbone.js Applications by aioprisan on Thursday December 27, 2012 @04:52PM (#4975235)

yui compressor is deprecated

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Re:Developing Backbone.js Applications by ojbyrne on Friday December 28, 2012 @09:23AM (#4977741)

By who? Genuinely curious.

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Re:Developing Backbone.js Applications by ojbyrne on Friday December 28, 2012 @09:24AM (#4977748)

Ah, found it myself: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2012/10/16/state-of-yui-compress...

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Re:Developing Backbone.js Applications by camus on Thursday December 27, 2012 @04:34PM (#4975157)

I bet people doing some javascript aint going to install java just to minify their script, nor ant to manage tasks , nor maven to fetch packages when you get everything with node+npm. If you do testing , and you should , you need node to run tests.

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