Twin Cities Code Camp

GMail, Twitter, Turntable; Rich client-side applications are hot! Plus there are great advantages to it: highly responsive to the user, minimized network traffic, and consolidated rendering logic.

But Javascript tends to decay faster than strongly typed languages. This makes it even more important to structure your code in a modular, testable, and maintainable way. Modern Javascript libraries like these make structuring your application easier than ever!

• Backbone.js -- Model-View-Template structure
• Underscore.js -- General Purpose Javascript Utility
• Require.js -- Dependency Management

Together, we will build a Javascript web application atop these libraries--exploring client-side rendering, managing user state, consuming data, and error handleing.