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backbone.js on the server!

this is an approach to use backbone.js on the server with node.js.

why?

the benefit of using backbone.js on the server is that we can use the same interface (backbone.js-collections) to our data (backbone.js-models) on the server-side which we are already using on the client-side. this is very handy when we want to provide a RPC-interface.

how?

    dirty        server-side             expressjs
    couchdb     backbone-collection         dnode      browser
       ^                  ^                   ^           ^
    ___|___  _____________|_____________  ____|_____   ___|___
               
1a) backend ------> server-memory ------> REST-API ---> client

1b) backend ------> server-memory ------> RPC-API ----> client

2a) backend ----------------------------> REST-API ---> client    

2b) backend ----------------------------> RPC-API ----> client