# backbone

> Give your JS App some Backbone with Models, Views, Collections, and Events.

Latest version **1.6.1** (published 2025-04-01) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install backbone
pnpm add backbone
yarn add backbone
bun add backbone
```

## Health

**Score 48/100 (D)** — status: stable.

Positive: has types package; no vulnerabilities; high quality score; popular repo.

Warnings: low downloads; no esm support.

Negative: stale.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.6.1 |
| Published | 2025-04-01 |
| First published | 2011-07-01 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | separate (@types/backbone) |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Dependencies | 1 |
| Unpacked size | 185.4 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 28101 |
| Author | Jeremy Ashkenas |
| Maintainers | jashkenas, braddunbar, jridgewell, jgonggrijp |
| Keywords | model, view, controller, router, server, client, browser |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/backbone
- Repository: https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone
- Homepage: https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone#readme
- Issues: https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/backbone

## Dependencies (1)

- [underscore](https://npm.io/package/underscore.md) >=1.8.3

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## Recent versions

- 1.6.1 (latest) — 2025-04-01
- 1.6.0 — 2024-02-05
- 1.5.0 — 2023-07-28
- 1.4.1 — 2022-02-26
- 1.4.0 — 2019-02-19
- 1.3.3 — 2016-04-05
- 1.3.2 — 2016-03-12
- 1.3.1 — 2016-03-04
- 1.2.3 — 2015-09-03
- 1.2.2 — 2015-08-19
- 1.2.1 — 2015-06-04
- 1.2.0 — 2015-05-13
- 1.1.2 — 2014-02-20
- 1.1.1 — 2014-02-13
- 1.1.0 — 2013-10-11
- … 17 more at https://npm.io/package/backbone/versions

## README

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Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface.

For Docs, License, Tests, pre-packed downloads, and everything else, really, see:
https://backbonejs.org

To suggest a feature or report a bug:
https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/issues

For questions on working with Backbone or general discussions:
[security policy](SECURITY.md),
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/backbone.js,
https://matrix.to/#/#jashkenas_backbone:gitter.im or
https://groups.google.com/g/backbonejs

Backbone is an open-sourced component of DocumentCloud:
https://github.com/documentcloud

Testing powered by SauceLabs:
https://saucelabs.com

Many thanks to our contributors:
https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/graphs/contributors

Special thanks to Robert Kieffer for the original philosophy behind Backbone.
https://github.com/broofa

This project adheres to a [code of conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md). By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.

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