It might be hard for you to eye-parse this example without walking through the introductory materials on Backbone in Chapter 7 first, so I suggest you read about MVC and Backbone in the book before going through this example.

To run this example you'll need to build the application with Browserify, I've set up Grunt for that, just like in ch05e11 Browserify + Common.JS.

grunt build

Once you build it, you can see it in action just opening the HTML page. Make sure you browse through the code! I'm sure you'll find interesting comments and advice in there!

open app.html

Oh, also, if you want to make changes to the Backbone application, and rebuild them without runing grunt build every time, you could use the following command.

grunt watch

That's about it. This demo shows how you can use Backbone collections to keep track of a list of models. I've kept this example simple on purpose, so that you can progressively understand what is going on as we add functionality to the view.