exoskeleton

Exoskeleton

Exoskeleton is a faster and leaner Backbone for your HTML5 apps.

http://exosjs.com

What already works

All features you need for real-world app are working. All software tests are passing: (libs = underscore and jquery)

• Backbone: with and without libs
• Chaplin: with and without libs

Marionette and other popular plugins: WIP.

Building

Default and custom builds:

make # Will create exoskeleton.js
make noutils # If you want to use Underscore and jQuery
            # and don't want to include `Exoskeleton.utils`.
# Custom, like this:
cat lib/{header,events,collection,sync,history,footer}.js > exoskeleton.js

Current features

• Custom build (you can cat stuff now)
• No hard dependencies on underscore or jquery
• Query-string router
• Speed: blazing fast when used without jQuery.
• View#delegateEvents has keepOld option that allows to preserve old events.
• All params are allowed for model attributes, for example model.get('constructor') (jashkenas/backbone#1495)
• Support for Bower and Component(1)
• AMD support
• Declaratively defined view events which point to non-existing handler functions are no longer tolerated / skipped. Early error is thrown instead.

Differences

• In no-underscore environment, there are no underscore-inspired Collection methods (each, pluck etc.), but there are ES5-inspired methods:

  forEach, map, filter, some, every, reduce, reduceRight, indexOf, lastIndexOf

  Also, no underscore-inspired Model methods at all.

• emulateHTTP and emulateJSON were removed

Changelog

Exoskeleton 0.5.0 (2 November 2013)

• Fixed behaviour in node.js environment.
• Backbone.Deferred now must return actual Deferred ({promise, resolve, reject} object).
• Removed Backbone.resolveDeferred.
• Added beforeSend option to utils.ajax.
• Moved utils.ajax({method}) option to {type}.
• When used with custom build of lodash, Collection and Model will now use all existing methods.
• Improved performance of event triggering.