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    14 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.

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    16 For Docs, License, Tests, pre-packed downloads, and everything else, really, see:

    17 http://backbonejs.org

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    19 To suggest a feature, report a bug, or general discussion:

    20 https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/issues

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    22 Backbone is an open-sourced component of DocumentCloud:

    23 https://github.com/documentcloud

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    25 Many thanks to our contributors:

    26 https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/graphs/contributors

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    28 Special thanks to Robert Kieffer for the original philosophy behind Backbone.

    29 https://github.com/broofa