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Welcome to the Mast wiki!

Mast is an extension of the Backbone framework that allows you to build large scale applications quickly and effectively. Backbone itself is a good framework, but is does not offer any guidance on how to design and architect your application. The developer is left responsible to make difficult decisions such as of how to manage the individual parts of their application and what patterns to use. In short, Backbone is just too open ended.

After a couple of years of intense use of the framework, we developed Mast based on best practices, effective design patterns, and much more. At its core, Mast is still built on top of Backbone. This means that Mast is not an all-or-nothing solution. Use as much or as little as you desire to help you create large client side applications as fast as you can.

Topics of interest

• Getting Started with Mast.
• Writing Your Templates.
• What are Regions?
• What is a Component?
• Handling Client Side Routing with Mast.
• Using Mast with Sails.