Backbone.js + Drupal: Web-apps with Drupal

The Web Apps are coming!

Drupal's mastered the back-end. Now it needs a front-end JS framework to help with building dynamic user interfaces in the browser. jQuery alone doesn't cut it.

To the rescue comes Backbone.js (http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/), a popular, powerful, lightweight, and fun MVC-like JS framework and the exciting new Backbone module (http://drupal.org/project/backbone), which integrates Backbone.js with Drupal.

This presentation will include a discussion of basic web application development principals, introduce the Backbone.js framework and the Backbone.js module, and finish up with a short walkthrough of a simple todo-list web-app built with Drupal and the Backbone.js module.