Building Backbone.js apps with Backlift part 1: Views and Templates

http://gun.io/blog/Building-Backbone.js-apps-with-Backlift-Views-and-Templates/

by colevscode • 13 years ago

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pplante• 13 years ago

The website doesn't work correctly on my Android (JB4.2.2) browser. I can see the page background with a lot of scrollable space, but no text or header.

bjhoops1• 13 years ago

This is really cool. Question: what are you using behind the scenes to smash the properties in the yaml file into your index.html? I didn't see anything explaining this (unless I missed it).

Jacob4u2• 13 years ago

I believe this is handled by Backlift: http://backlift.github.com/docs/basics.html#backlift-variabl...

nchuhoai• 13 years ago

It'd be really interesting for me to know how many companies/larger projects have been build on top of Backend-as-a-service. I can understand the use case for simply storing passwords etc., but I'm really wondering whether you can create a complex product on top of them, though I am biased as a full-stack developer

camus• 13 years ago

Well , the good news is there are open-source baas libraries one can install on his own server, and they are fully testable. I would use a baas for a quick prototype , where the client is built first though , so there are some use cases. But again , there are a lot of script you can get that are production ready , with a RESTfull interface , ACL and user management , mongodb backed so user can upload to gridfs etc ...

colevscode3• 13 years ago

OP here, If you're seeing an "unexpected error" when creating a project, we apologize. We're having an issue with our dropbox worker process. We're working on it.

colevscode3• 13 years ago

Ok, thanks to Dropbox support it looks like we're back up!

warfangle• 13 years ago

Backlift seems to be a proprietary implementation - your app runs on their servers.

Am I correct in this assumption? Can you not run your own implementation, e.g. rails?

And dropbox integration before git integration...?

colevscode3• 13 years ago

You're correct, Backlift isn't set up to let users run their own backend.

junto• 13 years ago

Spelling mistake on the front page of backlift.com: "...Bakbone.js...., to name a few".

Building Backbone.js apps with Backlift part 1: Views and Templates

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