generator-backbone

Backbone.js generator

Maintainer: Revath S Kumar

A Backbone generator for Yeoman that provides a functional boilerplate Backbone app out of the box. You also get access to a number of sub-generators which can be used to easily create individual models, views, collections and so on.

Optional RequireJS (AMD) support has recently been added as a prompt when using the generator on new projects.

Usage

Install: npm install -g generator-backbone

Make a new directory and cd into it:

mkdir my-new-project && cd $_

Run yo backbone, optionally passing an app name:

yo backbone [app-name]

Generators

Available generators:

• backbone:model
• backbone:view
• backbone:collection
• backbone:router
• backbone:all

Typical workflow

yo backbone # generates your application base and build workflow
yo backbone:model blog
yo backbone:collection blog
yo backbone:router blog
yo backbone:view blog
grunt server

Also checkout this NetTuts write-up for a guide to building Backbone.js apps using this generator.

Options

• --coffee

  Generate scaffolds in CoffeeScript. RequireJS is not supported with --coffee option for now.

• --skip-install

  Skips the automatic execution of bower and npm after scaffolding has finished.

• --test-framework=[framework]

  Defaults to mocha. Can be switched for another supported testing framework like jasmine.

• --template-framework=[framework]

  Defaults to lodash templating with grunt-contrib-jst. handlebars and mustache are also supported.

Contribute

See the contributing docs

When submitting an issue, please follow the guidelines. Especially important is to make sure Yeoman is up-to-date, and providing the command or commands that cause the issue.

When submitting a bugfix, write a test that exposes the bug and fails before applying your fix. Submit the test alongside the fix.

When submitting a new feature, add tests that cover the feature.

License

BSD license