As an application begins to scale, the complexity can be reduced by modularizing your code in a way that it can be comprehended by other users. MVC frameworks like Backbone.js have already introduced concepts of Models, Collections and Views on the front end.

Initially I would say, start off by building small applications in Backbone, such as a an API, that is similar to a jQuery AJAX call to an external API. In this example I am going to walk you through some sample code to get you started by building a Single Page Application that brings up the Titles from your Soundcloud Account.

Your probably wondering, why do we have to write so much code for displaying HTML elements that don't currently have a feature rich component. These are called single page applications. Backbone consists of building web pages using the following architectures: