This 3-part series [1] on building a wine-cellar app (basic CRUD, REST, etc..) with Backbone is a great place to start if you've never done anything with Backbone before.
The code is available on github [2], the author is clear and concise, and there are a number of back ends supported (node/express, php/slim, java/jersey).
The code is available on github [2], the author is clear and concise, and there are a number of back ends supported (node/express, php/slim, java/jersey).
[1] http://coenraets.org/blog/2011/12/backbone-js-wine-cellar-tu...
[2] https://github.com/ccoenraets/backbone-cellar