When I started with Drupal 7, I just dove right into site building, customization and theming. I didn’t dissect Drupal into its components. For Drupal 8, I am getting to know all aspects of the framework so I am never distracted by unfamiliar components when building or developing.
At the time of writing, apart from breezing through a few tutorials, I have not implemented anything with Backbone. I am making these notes as a reference overview of how Backbone works. When I get to D8 module development, if feasible, I may write a tutorial on how to incorporate Backbone into a Drupal module.
This is the first of a series of posts exploring Drupal 8. I am going from the front-end to the back-end starting with what are probably the more obscure to less obscure components of Drupal 8 with each post.
Underscore.js is an open source Javascript helper library intended to make common data manipulation tasks on JavaScript arrays, objects and collections easier. At the time of writing, the size of the compressed version of the library is less than 6 kilobytes.
