# Backbone.js

JavaScript library that gives web applications models, collections, views and events over a RESTful JSON interface.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/backbone/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-26
Updated: 2026-10-28
Listed since: 2026-10-26

## Record

### Links

- home: https://backbonejs.org/
- repository: https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone
- docs: https://backbonejs.org/
- forum: https://groups.google.com/g/backbonejs

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Jeremy Ashkenas
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2010
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: framework
- hosting: unknown
- language: javascript
- runtime: unknown
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: browser
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: download of backbone.js script file

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2025-04-01

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 28091
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 1352328
- contributors: 288
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: 84116
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 34984
- dependentPackages: 1711

### Sources

- urls: https://backbonejs.org/ (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/jashkenas/backbone (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://backbonejs.org/ (read 2026-10-26)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/jashkenas/backbone/tags?per_page=100 (read 2026-10-26)
- maintainer: https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-26)
- maintainerType: https://registry.npmjs.org/backbone/latest (read 2026-10-26)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/jashkenas/backbone (read 2026-10-26)
- category: https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone (read 2026-10-26)
- installMethod: https://backbonejs.org/ (read 2026-10-26)
- runsAs: https://backbonejs.org/ (read 2026-10-26)
- license: https://backbonejs.org/ (read 2026-10-26)
- license: https://registry.npmjs.org/backbone/latest (read 2026-10-26)
- currentMajor: https://registry.npmjs.org/backbone/latest (read 2026-10-26)
- latestReleaseDate: https://registry.npmjs.org/backbone (read 2026-10-26)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/jashkenas/backbone (read 2026-10-26)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/jashkenas/backbone/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-26)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2026-09-28:2026-10-04/backbone (read 2026-10-28)
- httpArchiveSites: https://cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies (read 2026-10-26)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/backbone (read 2026-10-26)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/backbone (read 2026-10-26)

## Notes

Backbone.js gives JavaScript web applications models, collections, views and events, and connects them to an existing API over a RESTful JSON interface. The [homepage](https://backbonejs.org/) presents it for rich client-side applications and says it is an open-source component of DocumentCloud. It is distributed as a script file to download.

## Worth knowing

Backbone depends on Underscore.js, and the homepage says jQuery is needed only for RESTful persistence and for DOM manipulation with views.

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