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Building Backbone.js apps with Backlift part 1: Views and Templates
- pplante 14y agoThe website doesn't work correctly on my Android (JB4.2.2) browser. I can see the page background with a lot of scrollable space, but no text or header.
- bjhoops1 14y agoThis is really cool. Question: what are you using behind the scenes to smash the properties in the yaml file into your index.html? I didn't see anything explaining this (unless I missed it).
- Jacob4u2 14y agoI believe this is handled by Backlift: http://backlift.github.com/docs/basics.html#backlift-variables-and-the-configyml-file http://backlift.github.com/docs/basics.html#backlift-variabl...
- nchuhoai 14y agoIt'd be really interesting for me to know how many companies/larger projects have been build on top of Backend-as-a-service. I can understand the use case for simply storing passwords etc., but I'm really wondering whether you can create a complex product on top of them, though I am biased as a full-stack developer
- camus 14y agoWell , the good news is there are open-source baas libraries one can install on his own server, and they are fully testable. I would use a baas for a quick prototype , where the client is built first though , so there are some use cases. But again , there are a lot of script you can get that are production ready , with a RESTfull interface , ACL and user management , mongodb backed so user can upload to gridfs etc ...
- colevscode 14y agoOP here, If you're seeing an "unexpected error" when creating a project, we apologize. We're having an issue with our dropbox worker process. We're working on it.
- colevscode 14y agoOk, thanks to Dropbox support it looks like we're back up!
- warfangle 14y agoBacklift seems to be a proprietary implementation - your app runs on their servers. Am I correct in this assumption? Can you not run your own implementation, e.g. rails? And dropbox integration before git integration...?
- colevscode 14y agoYou're correct, Backlift isn't set up to let users run their own backend.
- junto 14y agoSpelling mistake on the front page of backlift.com: "...Bakbone.js...., to name a few".