I wanted to get views from the symfony community about how one would achieve using backbone.js to create a one paged application.
Is it even possible to call the functions in symfony (e.g public function executeCreate()) through backbone.js) has anyone done it?
Can you give me some resources? thanks in advance.
Why not? Symfony easily can return JSON data on request by backbone clientside app. For Symfony2 it can be like this:
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
class MyController extends Controller {
public function createAction($requestParam1, $requestParam2)
$response = new Response(json_encode(array(
'requestParam1' => $requestParam1,
'requestParam2' => $requestParam2
)));
$response->headers->set('Content-Type', 'application/json');
return $response;
}
}
I would recommend you to have a look at the FOSRestBundle. Another attempt could be to handle the requests yourself, and return the date from the orm/odm via Serializer
the only thing bothered me so far, was the form handling (used backbone-forms), where I simply not was able to keep my code DRY (had duplicate data for the form+validation in symfony and in the frontend-part).
If you want to start a new Symfony2 + backbone app, I would recommend this bundle:
https://github.com/gigo6000/DevtimeBackboneBundle
There's also a demo app that can be helpful to see the backbone.js and Symfony2 interaction: