In this guest post, Luke Herrington shares his experience with integrating an existing Drupal backend with a Backbone.Marionette Todo app.

If you're reading this, you probably already know about all of the great work that Gizra has done in the Drupal/REST space. If you haven't, I highly recommend you check out their github repo. Also see the RESTful module.

One of the projects that Amitai has contributed is Todo Restful. It shows an Angular implementation of the canonical TodoMVC Javascript app connecting to a headless Drupal backend. It's a great demonstration of how easy exposing Drupal content with the RESTful module is. It also shows that when a RESTful API adheres to best practices, connecting it with clients that follow the same best practices is like a nice handshake.

I saw the Todo Restful project and it got me thinking, "If Amitai did this right (hint: he did), then I should be able to get this working with Backbone pretty easily". I was pleasantly surprised!

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Todo app with a Drupal backend

Here's a simplified list of everything I had to do to get it working:

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