Backbone Used by

Backbone Used by

Disqus

Disqus chose Backbone.js to power the latest version of their commenting widget. They felt it was the right choice for their distributed web app, given Backbone’s small footprint and ease of extensibility.

Khan Academy

Offering a web app that aims to provide free world-class education to anyone anywhere, Khan use Backbone to keep their frontend code both modular and organized.

MetaLab

MetaLab created Flow, a task management app for teams using Backbone. Their workspace uses Backbone to create task views, activities, accounts, tags and more.

Walmart Mobile

Walmart chose Backbone to power their mobile web applications, creating two new extension frameworks in the process - Thorax and Lumbar. We’ll be discussing both of these later in the book.

AirBnb

Airbnb developed their mobile web app using Backbone and now use it across many of their products.

Code School

Code School’s course challenge app is built from the ground up using Backbone, taking advantage of all the pieces it has to offer: routers, collections, models and complex event handling.