While at WordCamp Providence over the weekend, I attended a presentation by K. Adam White entitled, Evolving your JavaScript with Backbone.js.
K. Adam talked about the use of JavaScript in WordPress, and what a great thing jQuery was and how jQuery changed WordPress in a good way. Now jQuery usage has evolved into Backbone and Underscore, and they will change WP in an equally good way.
I learned lots of technical gobbly-gook which is of no interest to my clients… A couple of take-aways are:
- Backbone.js v 1.0 is now bundled in the core WordPress starting with WP 3.6
- 12.5% of code shipped with WP is JavaScript
- WordPress moving more towards JavaScript-driven product than PHP-driven product
- Backbone.js is a library of models, collections, views that provide structure to programs
- Backbone complements jQuery and Underscore JavaScript libraries