Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models 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 application over a RESTful JSON interface.
For Docs, License, Tests, pre-packed downloads, and everything else, really, see: http://backbonejs.org
To suggest a feature, report a bug, or general discussion: http://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/issues
Backbone is an open-sourced component of DocumentCloud: https://github.com/documentcloud
Many thanks to our contributors: http://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/contributors
Special thanks to Robert Kieffer for the original philosophy behind Backbone. http://github.com/broofa
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