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Explain what is Backbone.js?

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Backbone.js is a JavaScript client-side (front end) framework, which helps to organize and manage your code and makes it simpler to develop single page applications. It allows you to structure JavaScript code in an MVC (Model, View, Controller) fashion

Model: It is a part of your code that inflates and retrieves the data
View: It is the HTML representation of this model
Controller: It enables you to save your javascript application via a hashbang URl

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Why you have to use Backbone.js? Advantages?

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By using JavaScript with the minimal set of data-structuring (models & collections) and user interface (views & URLs) it enables you to develop a web application

Backbone.js is best useful to develop MVC like web applications, single page web applications or complex JavaScript web applications in an organized and structured manner without JavaScript code mixing with HTML

Provides key value binding and custom events

API with tons of functions

Robust event handling

API connection over a RESTful JSON interface

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What are the three js files that are required to setup a working environment for Backbone.js?

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You are required following three js files to setup a working environment for Backbone.js

jQuery
Backbone.js
Underscore

In your application put these files within js folder and use it in your index.html page.

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What is ModelBinder in Backbone.js?

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The ModelBinder class is used to make synchronization process of views and models together.

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What is the most powerful capabilities of the ModelBinder?

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The most powerful and useful capability of ModelBinder class is that ModelBinder allows you to define scope when you create your bindings using jQuery.

If your views are simple, you can rely on default scoping rules that are based off of the html “name” attribute.

You can define scoping with jQuery selectors if your views are complex.

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What is the difference between the properties “id” and “cid” on a model object?

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The “id” property on a model is automatically assigned based on the “id” set in the model’s attributes hash. Ideally, this is the ID that you receive from the rest API for the resource that you are querying. On the other hand, “cid” is an ID temporarily assigned to each model and is useful until an actual ID is determined for the object. For example, a model pushed to a collection that has not yet been persisted can be addressed using “cid”, until it is saved in the database and an actual ID is generated for it.

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What is the function of parse in Backbone.js?

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Whenever data of a model is returned by the server while fetching or storing, this data is called parse. It is called by Backbone whenever a collection's models are returned by server.

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Mention what are the typical problems you might face with the Backbone view code?

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Application models do not change very often
Application pages are frequently refreshed from scratch from the server
Between different view models are not shared

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What is Backbone.sync used for?

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When Backbone wants to save or read a model to the server it calls out a function called as Backbone.sync.

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In a Backbone View, what is the use of setElement?

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setElement function is used when Backbone view has to be applied to a different DOM element.

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