re: Backbone.Marionette meetup

[Matt Babineau]

Great to meet everyone last night. So what's the next move for building/patching Backbone/Backbone.Marionette?

One idea that I'd had brewing for a while is to build a local data simulation tool, allowing you to setup some basic JSON data structures, to build a backbone app against.

If you've used the BBB much at all you know that it has some really great tools for developing backbone apps. Mainly the localhost server build process, which is awesome. However because of things like CORS, it makes connecting to a REST API difficult.

So my proposal is to build a plugin to handle REST API endpoints but all via flat JSON files, or something like that.

This is one example that comes to mind:
https://github.com/tbranyen/vertebrae

If anyone has any other ideas about plugins to build, post them here! I'm also curious to learn about any pain points that you might have with the Backbone development process, that also might be a good place to start working on improvements, etc...

Regards,

Matt

[Jarrod Overson]

I think that's a great idea. Local development is a valid concern and something like this would be valuable.

One of the practices we could also get started on is defining a list of pain points, frustrations, or confusions about app development with these technologies and then tackle the solutions independently or as a group.

One of my interests is bringing in some of the best of other technologies into this environment, model binding, scaffolding/templates, etc.

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Jarrod Overson