Backbone JS - Plugins, Frameworks, Tutorials

First of all here is the main link for Backbone.JS page on github

Tutorials:
Developing Backbone.js Applications

Relational:
https://github.com/PaulUithol/Backbone-relational - "Backbone-relational provides one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-one relations between models for Backbone."

Validation:
https://github.com/thedersen/backbone.validation - "A validation plugin for Backbone.js inspired by Backbone.ModelBinding, and another implementation with a slightly different approach than mine at Backbone.Validations."

Frameworks:
http://derickbailey.github.com/backbone.marionette/ - "Backbone.Marionette is a composite application library for Backbone.js that aims to simplify the construction of large scale JavaScript applications. It is largely a collection of common design and implementation patterns found in the applications that I (Derick Bailey) have been building with Backbone, and includes various pieces inspired by composite application architectures, such as Microsoft's "Prism" framework."



Finally you can find more on:

github:
https://github.com/search?q=backbone&repo=&langOverride=&start_value=1&type=Repositories&language=JavaScript

bitbucket:
https://bitbucket.org/repo/all?name=backbone

google code:
http://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:Backbone.js

Python Packages

nlp

http://code.google.com/p/guess-language/ - Guess the natural language of a text

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/text-hr/0.17 - Morphological/Inflection Engine for Croatian language, POS tagger, stopwords

testing

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/testtools/0.9.11 - Extensions to the Python standard library unit testing framework

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Benchmarker/3.0.1 - a small utility for benchmarking

http://github.com/dcramer/pyflakes - quality testing

AI

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ConceptNet/4.0.0 - A Python API to a Semantic Network Representation of the Open Mind Common Sense Project

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/stemming/1.0.1 - Python implementations of various stemming algorithms.

http://code.google.com/p/peach/ - Peach is a pure-python module, based on SciPy and NumPy to implement algorithms for computational intelligence and machine learning.

concurrency

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/eventlet/0.9.16 - Highly concurrent networking library

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyev/0.8.0-4.04 - Python libev interface.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/billiard/0.3.1 - Multiprocessing Pool Extensions

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gevent/0.13.0 - Python network library that uses greenlet and libevent for easy and scalable concurrency

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/carrot/0.10.7 - AMQP Messaging Framework for Python

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Jug/0.8.1 - A Task Based Parallelization Framework

http://discoproject.org/ - Disco is a distributed computing framework based on the MapReduce paradigm.

http://celeryproject.org/ - Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.

logs

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailinglogger/3.4.1 - Enhanced emailing handlers for the python logging package.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/logtools/0.7.1 - Log analysis and filtering tools

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/errorhandler/1.1.1 - A logging framework handler that tracks when messages above a certain level have been logged.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/prettyprint/0.1.3 - prettyprint print list/dict/tuple object prettily

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/log4tailer/3.0.4 - log tailer

pdf

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdfminer/20110515 - PDF parser and analyzer

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Products.PDFtoOCR/1.1 - PDFtoOCR does OCR processing on PDF documents. The text from OCR is used in the search results.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pisa/3.0.33 - PDF generator using HTML and CSS
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xhtml2pdf - PDF generator using HTML and CSS

db

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyes/0.16.0 - Python Elastic Search driver

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Batcher/2 - Cut sliceable objects into batches, eg for paging display on a website

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/torque/0.4.5 - A web hook task queue based on tornado and redis

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sqlbean/0.601 - A auto maping ORM for MYSQL and can bind with memcached

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/doqu/0.27.2 - Python models for schema-less databases.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/protobuf/2.3.0 - Protocol buffers

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/memcached_lock/1.1 - Implements a distributed lock on top of memcached.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bda.ldap/1.5.2 - LDAP convenience library

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/rum/0.4dev-20110726 - RESTful web interface generator

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/SQLAlchemy/0.7.2 - Database Abstraction Library

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/GeoAlchemy/0.4.1 - Using SQLAlchemy with Spatial Databases

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sparqlhttp/1.11 - HTTP SPARQL server and client for twisted and rdflib

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/SPARQLWrapper/1.4.2 - This is a wrapper around a SPARQL service. It helps in creating the query URI and, possibly, convert the result into a more manageable format.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/SuRF/1.1.4-r352 - Object RDF Mapper

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/surf.sparql_protocol/1.0.0-r336 - surf SPARQL protocol plugin

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pymongo/2.0.1 - Python driver for MongoDB

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mongokit/0.7.2 - MongoKit is a python module that brings structured schema and validation layer on top of the great pymongo driver.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pysolr/2.0.15 - Lightweight python wrapper for Apache Solr.

http://www.openvest.com/trac/wiki/RDFAlchemy - The goal of RDF Alchemy is to allow anyone who uses python to have a object type API access to an RDF Triplestore.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/py-postgresql/1.0.2 - PostgreSQL driver and tools library.

data structures

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/csorteddict/0.2 - Key-sorted (balanced tree) dictionary store implemented in C

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Rtree/0.6.0 - R-Tree spatial index for Python GIS

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Quadtree/0.1.2 - Quadtree spatial index for Python GIS

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/treap/1.21 - Python implementation of treaps

gis

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/transitfeed/1.2.7 - Google Transit Feed Specification library and tools

http://code.google.com/p/python-gpsbabel/ - Python Wrapper Around GPSBabel Executable

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Osm4routing/1.0.4 - A simple tool to parse OpenStreetMap data to use them for routing

security

http://code.google.com/p/hntool/ - HnTool - Hardening tool for *nix servers.

http://code.google.com/p/fuzzdb/ - Attack and Discovery Pattern Database for Application Fuzz Testing

http://code.google.com/p/dharmaencoder/ - Encoder and Decoder Tool

http://peachfuzzer.com/ - Peach is a SmartFuzzer that is capable of performing both generation and mutation based fuzzing.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycerberus/0.4.2 - Highly flexible, no magic input validation library

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/privilege/1.0 - securely drop privileges from root to another user

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-crack/0.5 - Python bindings for cracklib

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/htmllaundry/1.10 - Simple HTML cleanup utilities

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/CLVault/0.5 - Command-Line utility to store and retrieve passwords

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-nmap/0.2.2 - This is a python class to use nmap and access scan results from python

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/antiparser/2.0 - antiparser is an API/framework for generating random, malformed data

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/validictory/0.7.1 - general purpose python data validator

video

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/flvlib/0.1.12 - Parsing, manipulating and indexing FLV files

http://code.google.com/p/pyffmpeg/ - a wrapper around FFmpeg's libavcodec, libavformat and libavutil libraries

localization

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/2011h - World timezone definitions, modern and historical

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/DateUtils/0.5.1 - Various utilities for working with datetime objects.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ccy/0.5.1 - Currency information and calculation

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/currency.converter/0.5.5 - Currency Converter

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycountry/0.14.1 - ISO country, subdivision, language, currency and script definitions and their translations

recipies

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577485-self-extracting-archiver/ - self extracting archive

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577460-probability-dictionary/

http://peter-hoffmann.com/2010/retry-decorator-python.html

Javascript Libraries

The following libraries require either jQuery or no library at all.

Editors
http://codemirror.net/ - CodeMirror is a JavaScript library that can be used to create a relatively pleasant editor interface for code-like content ― computer programs, HTML markup, and similar. If a mode has been written for the language you are editing, the code will be coloured, and the editor will optionally help you with indentation.

Graphics / Visualization

http://www.raphaeljs.com/ - Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web.

http://www.processingjs.org/ - Processing.js is the sister project of the popular Processing visual programming language, designed for the web. Processing.js makes your data visualizations, digital art, interactive animations, educational graphs, video games, etc. work using web standards and without any plug-ins. You write code using the Processing language, include it in your web page, and Processing.js does the rest.

http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ - Protovis composes custom views of data with simple marks such as bars and dots. Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to simplify construction.

http://fgnass.github.com/spin.js/ - An animated CSS3 loading spinner with VML fallback for IE. Smaller than an animated GIF (~1.7K gzipped)

Charting

http://www.highcharts.com/ - awesome charting library

http://www.jscharts.com/ - JS Charts is a JavaScript based chart generator

http://code.google.com/p/flot/ - Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces graphical plots of arbitrary datasets on-the-fly client-side.

http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeplot/ - Plotting Time Series

Maps

http://gmap.nurtext.de/ - gMap is a lightweight jQuery plugin that helps you embed Google Maps into your website. With only 2 KB in size it is very flexible and highly customizable.

Video

http://html5media.info/ - make HTML5 video and audio tags work in all major browsers.

Localization

http://josscrowcroft.github.com/accounting.js/ - a tiny JavaScript library for number, money and currency formatting, with optional excel-style column rendering (to line up symbols and decimals). It's lightweight, fully localisable and has zero dependencies.

Local Storage / DB Like Interfaces / KeyValue Stores

http://www.jstorage.info/ - jStorage is a simple wrapper plugin for Prototype, MooTools and jQuery to cache data (string, numbers, objects, even XML nodes) on browser side.

http://samy.pl/evercookie/ - evercookie is a javascript API available that produces extremely persistent cookies in a browser. (Note: dont actually use it on your website)

http://taffydb.com/ - TaffyDB is an opensouce library that brings database features into your JavaScript applications.

Security

http://www.adsafe.org/ - Making JavaScript Safe for Guest Scripts

Encryption

http://cryptico.wwwtyro.net/ - An easy-to-use encryption system utilizing RSA and AES for javascript.

Keyboard Shortcuts

https://github.com/madrobby/keymaster - keypress handler

https://github.com/pixelmatrix/mapkey - A simple jQuery plugin to easily map keyboard characters to links or functions

Text Processing

https://github.com/bcherry/twitter-text-js - A JavaScript library that provides text processing routines for Tweets. This library conforms to a common test suite shared by many other implementations, particularly twitter-text.gem (Ruby). The library provides autolinking and extraction for URLs, usernames, lists, and hashtags.

Script Loaders

http://headjs.com/ - Load scripts like images. Use HTML5 and CSS3 safely. Target CSS for different screens, paths, states and browsers. Make it the only script in your HEAD. A concise solution to universal issues. headjs Introduction

Client/Server Real Time Communication

http://socket.io/ - Socket.IO aims to make realtime apps possible in every browser and mobile device, blurring the differences between the different transport mechanisms. socket.io introduction 

UI + Effects

https://github.com/jeff-optimizely/Guiders-JS - Guiders are a user experience design pattern for introducing users to a web application. guider js introduction

http://documentcloud.github.com/visualsearch/ - VisualSearch.js enhances ordinary search boxes with the ability to autocomplete faceted search queries. Specify the facets for completion, along with the completable values for any facet. You can retrieve the search query as a structured object, so you don't have to parse the query string yourself.

http://pixelmatrixdesign.com/uniform/ - Style for checkboxes, drop down menus, radio buttons, and file upload inputs

http://gsgd.co.uk/sandbox/jquery/easing/ - A jQuery plugin from GSGD to give advanced easing options.

http://imakewebthings.github.com/jquery-waypoints/ - Waypoints is a small jQuery plugin that makes it easy to execute a function whenever you scroll to an element.

http://tympanus.net/codrops/2011/01/06/animated-form-switching/ - Animated form switching

http://code.drewwilson.com/entry/tiptip-jquery-plugin - Tooltip

Templating

http://icanhazjs.com/ - Simple & powerful client-side templating for jQuery or Zepto.js

MVC / MVVM

http://knockoutjs.com/ - Simplify dynamic JavaScript UIs by applying the Model-View-View Model (MVVM)

http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/ - 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.

Other

http://sugarjs.com/ - Sugar is a Javascript library for working with native objects. It is designed to be intuitive, unobtrusive, and let you do more with less code.

http://code.google.com/p/closure-inspector/ - A development extension to Firebug for working with Closure Library and Closure Compiler