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Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.

For Docs, License, Tests, pre-packed downloads, and everything else, really, see:

http://backbonejs.org

To suggest a feature or report a bug:

https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/issues

For questions on working with Backbone or general discussions:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/backbonejs,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/backbone.js, or

https://gitter.im/jashkenas/backbone

Backbone is an open-sourced component of DocumentCloud:

https://github.com/documentcloud

Testing powered by SauceLabs:

https://saucelabs.com

Many thanks to our contributors:

https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/graphs/contributors

Special thanks to Robert Kieffer for the original philosophy behind Backbone.

https://github.com/broofa