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13th October 2010 - Link Blog

Backbone.js. As should be expected for a DocumentCloud project, Backbone is a concise, elegant and educational take on the JavaScript MVC pattern. Depends on Underscore.js and plays well with jQuery.

Posted 13th October 2010 at 5:23 pm

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