Welcome back to the Building a content viewer with Backbone series. Over the first four parts, we looked at almost every major component that ships with the latest version of Backbone including models, controllers, views and routers.

In this part of the tutorial, we’re going to hook our application up to a web server so that we can store our contacts in a database. We won’t be looking at LocalStorage; this is a popular means of persisting the data that Backbone apps use, but the fact is there are already a number of excellent tutorials available on this subject.

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In part four of this series, we saw how easy it is to add and remove models from our collection, and keep the page updated in sync with the changes. In this part, we’re going to look at editing existing model data.

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Welcome to part three of our series that focuses on building applications using Backbone. If you haven’t read parts one and two, I strongly recommend that you do — just so you know where we’re at and what we’ve covered so far.

In part one, we took a basic look and models, views and collections. In part two, we looked at routers, events and the history modules. In this part, we’re going to look further at interactions and see how we can add or remove models from a collection.

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