What is the purpose of backbone.js?

Question

I tried to understand the utility of backbone.js from its site http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone, but I still couldn\'t figure out much.

Can anybody help me b

Answer 1

Backbone.js is a JavaScript framework that helps you organize your code. It is literally a backbone upon which you build your application. It doesn't provide widgets (like jQuery UI or Dojo).

It gives you a cool set of base classes that you can extend to create clean JavaScript code that interfaces with RESTful endpoints on your server.