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Building Pageless Apps with Rails and Backbone js
ZURB is an interaction design and strategy company with more then 12 years of experience helping companies make users happy through great web interactions.
In this talk Matt Kelly (Lead Engineer) will explain the benefits of removing page loads from web applications to vastly increase the perceived performance of the app, and allow interactions and transitions that are not possible with a traditional page load.
The bulk of the presentation will be presenting Backbone.js and walking through each of the steps to create a pageless app using Backbone.js and Rails. With each step the design and interaction decisions will be explained, and what not to do with pageless apps will be illustrated.
The following details will be covered:
- Organizing your JavaScript with Backbone.js
- Using page templates that are renderable by both JavaScript and Rails
- Client side routing using Backbone
- Anchor (page fragment) vs. PushState for creating history and linkable states
- SEO considerations
- Advantages of only making sections of your app pageless
- Passing data between Rails and JavaScript at page load time
- Other tools to help make this process easier
People planning to attend this session also want to see:
Matt Kelly
ZURB
Matt Kelly is the lead engineer at ZURB. He is responsible for Notable, Verify, Bounce, Clue, and more recently Strike, all of which are built on Rails.
Matt came to ZURB to work as the only engineer in a pack of interaction designers and learn about building great products that people love to use.
He most recently spoke at jQuery Conf Boston about creating great interactions with jQuery.
He’s been coding Rails as a full time job for over 5 years, and has a passion for implementing well designed products.
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It works. thanks!!
@Jong Yoon, try now? Works for me.
The download link for pdf is broken. check it out plz.
Matt Kelly always gives good talks, and this was no exception. Great presentation.
Great presentation, well thought out, with code! Thanks for a great overview and a fun presentation. Maybe you can review some of the other sessions and give some tips.
EPIC talk. We’re still joking about the unicorns bleeding rainbows at my job.
Best talk of the conference, probably even more so than the Keynotes. Awesome job Matt! Hope you’ll be presenting at next years RailsConf.
Matt, you ROCKED!!!!!! I look forward to learning from the slides and other resources on Backbone.js. Matt, can you also port the code from the session? Thanks a bunch.
Yep. Best talk for me too.
Out of this world!
Slides? Need slides!
Fun talk. Tons of information – slightly overwhelming.
Matt Kelly should be a keynote speaker. Not just informative presentation, but fun, too. Can we give more than 5 stars?
best talk, really
Awesome from the first second ‘til the last one! Great content, excellent speaker and freaking funny!
Informative, great code demo. Entertaining presentation style; well done!
good talk. also best use of Ke$ha in programming conference.