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 |  _ < / _` |/ __| |/ /| '_ \ / _ \| '_ \ / _ \ | / __|
 | |_) | (_| | (__|   < | |_) | (_) | | | |  __/_| \__ \
 |____/ \__,_|\___|_|\_\|_.__/ \___/|_| |_|\___(_) |___/
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Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models 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.

For Docs, License, Tests, and pre-packed downloads, see:
http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/

To suggest a feature, report a bug, or general discussion:
http://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/issues/

All contributors are listed here:
http://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/contributors

Special thanks to Robert Kieffer for the original philosophy behind Backbone.
http://github.com/broofa
