Backbone.js
JavaScript library that gives web applications models, collections, views and events over a RESTful JSON interface.
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 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.
Identity
- Status
- Active
- Maintainer
- Jeremy Ashkenas4
- Maintained by
- Individual5
- First release
- 20103
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- In the browser1
- Install with
- download of backbone.js script file1
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-26: links, Install with, Runs as, License
backbonejs.org/ - 2026-10-26: links, Written in, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/jashkenas/backbone - 2026-10-26: First release
api.github.com/repos/jashkenas/backbone/tags?per_page=100 - 2026-10-26: Maintainer
github.com/jashkenas/backbone/blob/master/LICENSE - 2026-10-26: Maintained by, License, Current major version
registry.npmjs.org/backbone/latest - 2026-10-26: Categories
github.com/jashkenas/backbone - 2026-10-26: Last release
registry.npmjs.org/backbone - 2026-10-26: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/jashkenas/backbone/contributors?per_page=1 - 2026-10-28: npm downloads a week
api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2026-09-28:2026-10-04/backbone - 2026-10-26: Sites using it (HTTP Archive)
cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies - 2026-10-26: Dependent packages, Dependent repositories
packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/backbone