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Backbone.js is a popular open-source JavaScript “MV*” framework that has gained significant traction since its first release a little over three years ago. Although Backbone.js provides structure to JavaScript applications, it leaves a lot of design patterns and decisions up to the developer, for better or worse, and developers run into many common problems when they first begin developing in Backbone.js.
In my opinion, if you’re writing in Backbone.js, you should be following test-driven development (TDD) for your models and collections. I follow TDD by first writing failing Jasmine.js unit tests against my models or collections. Once the unit tests are written and failing, I flush out the model or collection.
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