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Front End Legos

February 2, 2013 By Jonathan Jeter 2 Comments

by Shay Howe at HTML5 Texas Conference in Austin, TX (Deck)

There are a million ways to write HTML and CSS, and everyone has their own, but is there a right way? Our code needs to be well structured, written in an organized manner, and performance driven. Sharing code with others should be a joyful experience, not absolute terror.

In this session, Shay will cover some best practices and performance tips for writing the highest quality HTML and CSS possible. Writing code is the easy part, finding a practice and structure that works well across the board is the hard part. Shay will outline HTML and CSS conventions that can be applied to your everyday practice.

Front End Legos - Building Modular CSSCommon Problems

  • Websites have difficulty scaling
  • code becomes brittle
  • Files and code bases begin to swell

What’s Wrong

Best practices aren’t exactly best practices

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Backbone: 3 Ways

February 2, 2013 By Jonathan Jeter Leave a Comment

by Pamela Fox at HTML5 Texas Conference, Austin, Texas (Deck)

Backbone is one of the most popular MVC frameworks for JavaScript these days, and one of the reasons for its popularity is that its minimal and lightweight. That makes it easy to use in different ways and adapt to different projects – but can also make it hard to learn. In this talk, I’ll start with Backbone basics, and then dive into three different ways that we use it to power the frontends of Coursera.org.

Backbone 3 Ways HTML5TX

Why use an MVC framework? Website includes: 242 js files, 28848 lines of code & 5-person frontend team. Needed more structure to their code.
Why Backbone?

  • Structure
  • Modularity
  • Persistence Layer
  • Common Services
  • Best Practices

Backbone JS MVC Diagram

Backbone is a lightweight model view controller framework. Models use set & get so the framework know what’s going on. Collections group objects together. Views with basic data binding. Router is available, but you don’t have to use it.

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