This is a sample application built to play with RequireJS, Backbone, Underscore and Node.

Being a fully contained application, once you've downloaded this application, you open the index.html as a file in a browser

Or you can also serve it through Node (dont forget to install Node and the connect package) like so:

node nodeserver.js    
localhost:9000/index.html <9000 is the default node port>

To run the application, you need not do a build. But this is an additional step to learn: how minification and bundling works using RequireJS's r.js plugin.

Without the build, a request to index.html is followed by additional requests for require-0.27.1-min.js, main.js, src/app.js, jquery-1.6.4-min.js, underscore-1.2.0-min.js and backbone-0.5.3-min.js

If you run the build however, the dependencies for each module(configured in build.js) are bundled together to generate a single js file To build, from the js directory, use:

node r.js -o build.js

The above generates a build directory with all the required files for the application Then you can run the Node server directly from the build directory with:

node nodeserver.js

Now a request for index.html will only follow with require-0.27.1-min.js and main.js

If you have suggestions for other ways of doing this module or backbone stuff, I'd love to hear. Do send me a message.