Marrow

Marrow is a boilerplate for backbone.js.

Not included:

• Magic code oh noooes!
• Coffee bad for your heart anyway
• Give you the opportunity to twiddle your thumbs sorry buddy

Included:

• A structure
• A great compilation process via Grunt
• Easy styling via libsass so fast!
• Templating via handlebars
• Lo-Dash instead of underscore for performance!
• An HTTP server
• pushState
• ... all you need to begin a great app and being happy

Explanation

.
├── Gruntfile.js
├── README.md
├── bin
├── bower.json
├── bower_components // folder where you'll find all packages you install via bower install
├── config.json
├── dist // final files
├── grunt_tasks // where all grunt tasks are defined
│   └── options
├── package.json
└── src // where you code
    ├── assets // static files
    ├── bootstrap.js
    ├── collections // http://backbonejs.org/#Collection
    ├── first.js // if a script needs to be at the beginning of the website
    ├── libs
    ├── main.js // $(document).ready
    ├── models // http://backbonejs.org/#Model
    ├── routers // http://backbonejs.org/#Router
    ├── styles // http://sass-lang.com/
    ├── templates // http://handlebarsjs.com/
    └── views // http://backbonejs.org/#View

Install

Requirements

• node.js
• npm

Easy way on Mac OS X: brew install node

Then

$ git clone https://github.com/kud/marrow.git

Node dependencies

$ npm install

Bower dependencies

$ bower install

Development

Watch mode

$ grunt

Classic mode

$ grunt dev

Distribution

$ grunt dist

Note

I use jQuery as dependency but if you only focus on Mobile app, you probably should use Zepto or have a look to Backbone.Native.