____ __ __ /\ _`\ /\ \ /\ \ __ \ \ \ \ \ __ ___\ \ \/'\\ \ \____ ___ ___ __ /\_\ ____ \ \ _ <' /'__`\ /'___\ \ , < \ \ '__`\ / __`\ /' _ `\ /'__`\ \/\ \ /',__\ \ \ \ \ \/\ \ \.\_/\ \__/\ \ \\`\\ \ \ \ \/\ \ \ \/\ \/\ \/\ __/ __ \ \ \/\__, `\ \ \____/\ \__/.\_\ \____\\ \_\ \_\ \_,__/\ \____/\ \_\ \_\ \____\/\_\_\ \ \/\____/ \/___/ \/__/\/_/\/____/ \/_/\/_/\/___/ \/___/ \/_/\/_/\/____/\/_/\ \_\ \/___/ \ \____/ \/___/ (_'_______________________________________________________________________________'_) (_.———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————._) 

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: http://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: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/backbonejs, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/backbone.js, or https://gitter.im/jashkenas/backbone

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

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