jashkenas/backbone

Give your JS App some Backbone with Models, Views, Collections, and Events

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README

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Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with 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: https://backbonejs.org

To suggest a feature or report a bug: https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/issues

For questions on working with Backbone or general discussions: security policy, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/backbone.js, https://matrix.to/#/#jashkenas_backbone:gitter.im or https://groups.google.com/g/backbonejs

Backbone is an open-sourced component of DocumentCloud: https://github.com/documentcloud

Testing powered by SauceLabs: https://saucelabs.com

Many thanks to our contributors: https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/graphs/contributors

Special thanks to Robert Kieffer for the original philosophy behind Backbone. https://github.com/broofa

This project adheres to a code of conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.

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jashkenas

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braddunbar

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akre54

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jridgewell

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jashkenas/backbone

Give your JS App some Backbone with Models, Views, Collections, and Events

28,101

stars

3,396

commits

JavaScript

primary language

Jul 29, 2026

updated

backbonejs.org

README

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/\  _`\                  /\ \    /\ \                                   __
\ \ \ \ \     __      ___\ \ \/'\\ \ \____    ___     ___      __      /\_\    ____
 \ \  _ <'  /'__`\   /'___\ \ , < \ \ '__`\  / __`\ /' _ `\  /'__`\    \/\ \  /',__\
  \ \ \ \ \/\ \ \.\_/\ \__/\ \ \\`\\ \ \ \ \/\ \ \ \/\ \/\ \/\  __/  __ \ \ \/\__, `\
   \ \____/\ \__/.\_\ \____\\ \_\ \_\ \_,__/\ \____/\ \_\ \_\ \____\/\_\_\ \ \/\____/
    \/___/  \/__/\/_/\/____/ \/_/\/_/\/___/  \/___/  \/_/\/_/\/____/\/_/\ \_\ \/___/
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(_'_______________________________________________________________________________'_)
(_.———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————._)

Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with 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: https://backbonejs.org

To suggest a feature or report a bug: https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/issues

For questions on working with Backbone or general discussions: security policy, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/backbone.js, https://matrix.to/#/#jashkenas_backbone:gitter.im or https://groups.google.com/g/backbonejs

Backbone is an open-sourced component of DocumentCloud: https://github.com/documentcloud

Testing powered by SauceLabs: https://saucelabs.com

Many thanks to our contributors: https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/graphs/contributors

Special thanks to Robert Kieffer for the original philosophy behind Backbone. https://github.com/broofa

This project adheres to a code of conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.

Contributors

(top 30 of 286)

jashkenas

1,353 commits

braddunbar

415 commits

akre54

320 commits

jridgewell

181 commits

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