Backbone Boilerplate

Setting up Backbone projects that use Require, Handlebars and Coffeescript made easy.

At the moment the transition from learning Backbone to using it in a real-world app is too hard. We built this little boilerplate to both minimize the repetition of setting up a new Backbone project, and share some of the architecture and stuff we've learned from lots of iteration on a fairly complex production Backbone app. The aim of this boilerplate is to make it easier, and work towards something approximating best practices. Contributions encouraged!

Dependancies

There are a ton. We need to write a one-liner install, but these are the major ones:

• Coffeescript Simply tell coffeescript to watch /coffee and compile to /public/js
• Node (used for r.js build)