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Dev tools · May 30, 2011

Todos: Backbone.js example + Google App Engine (Python)

Backbone.js with Google App Engine. Contribute to ccarpenterg/todolist development by creating an account on GitHub.

Todos: Backbone.js example + Google App Engine (Python) launched on May 30, 2011 with 38 votes, #21 of 217 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 15 years on.

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This is a demonstration project combining Backbone.js, a JavaScript framework, with Google App Engine's Python backend. It adapts the Backbone.js Todos example application to use Google App Engine's Datastore instead of local storage, connecting through a RESTful JSON interface. The project serves as a learning resource for developers exploring how to integrate Backbone.js with App Engine's infrastructure. Code and documentation are available on GitHub for contribution and study.

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I'm just learning to use the Backbone.js JavaScript framework and I was curious about making it work with Google App Engine . So I took the Todos example application and started to play. Backbone.js connects to your application over a RESTful JSON interface. And everything you have to know about how to construct the RESTful Handler is in the Backbone.sync documentation . So I've created a RESTful handler with one function for each HTTP method ( main.py ): In order to point the collection to the GAE Datastore I've removed the backbone-localstorage.js file dependency and mapped the collection to the url /todos ( todos.js ). Then I mapped the URL path to the RESTfulHandler ( main.py ): I'm…from github.com

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