In this chapter, we explored how Backbone represents a new chapter in web development and why it's the best framework for your project if your goal is to make powerful and scalable web applications.

In the next chapter, we'll begin to take a look at the components that make up Backbone, in particular its easy-to-use class system. We'll also look at Backbone's sister library, Underscore, which was also created by Jeremy Ashkenas and is a requirement for Backbone itself.