Filesystem

The Backbone Boilerplate has been designed to work well with and without a server. If you are using it within Adobe Air or PhoneGap, for instance, you will not have a server to run it through.

Note: If you are using it without a server, make sure you have permissions to do local AJAX requests, otherwise you should switch to using inline templates to avoid having to make an AJAX request

Local Filesystem

You will need to update the root property inside the app object which exists inside app/app.js and update the paths inside index.html. Assuming your application is located at the path: file:///Users/timbranyen/Sites/myapp/, the configuration would look something like this:

// Provide a global location to place configuration settings and module
// creation.
var app = {
  // The root path to run the application through.
  root: "file:///Users/timbranyen/Sites/myapp/"
};

After you have updated the root, update index.html to ensure it points to the correct paths.

<!-- Point the stylesheet to your CSS. -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="file:///Users/timbranyen/Sites/myapp/assets/css/index.css">

<!-- Point the configuration file and RequireJS to your filesystem. -->
<script data-main="file:///Users/timbranyen/Sites/myapp/app/config"
  src="file:///Users/timbranyen/Sites/myapp/assets/js/libs/require.js"></script>

If you are interested in deploying your application where you do not have the privilege of using asynchronous or built templates, you can easily swap out the fetch method to pull from the index.html file.

PhoneGap

Adobe Air