Using Backbone.js offline

Question

I'm evaluating Backbone.js for keeping data and UI synchronized in my web app. However, much of Backbone's value seems to lie in its use of RESTful interfaces. Though I may add server-side backup in the future, my primary use case involves storing all data offline using HTML5 local storage.

Is Backbone overkill for such a use case? If so, is there a better solution, focused solely on updating UI when data changes, and vice versa? (I'm also looking into Knockout and Javascript MVC.)

EDIT: I'm also now looking into Angular.js and jQuery Data Link.

Answer 1

Backbone.js works just as well with local storage as it does with RESTful queries.

I'm a learn-by-example kind of guy so here are some links to get you started:

• Todos, a todo application that uses local storage and backbone.js, check out the annotated source to see how it works.

• The localStorage adapter is all you need to get started, take a look at the annotated source of that too.