Backbone.emulateHTTP BackboneJS - Sync Backbone.sync Backbone.emulateJSON Backbone.emulateHTTP <!DOCTYPE html> <head> <title>Sync Example</title> <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.3.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/underscore.js/1.8.2/underscore-min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/backbone.js/1.1.2/backbone-min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </head> <body> <script type="text/javascript"> //If web server that doesn't support Backbone's REST/HTTP approach, then turn on 'Backbone.emulateHTTP' Backbone.emulateHTTP = true; //If web server can't handle requests encoded as application/json, then set the 'Backbone.emulateJSON' to true Backbone.emulateJSON = true; //The sync() method reads and fetch the model data Backbone.sync = function(method, model) { document.write(method + ": " + JSON.stringify(model)); model.set('id', 1); //Set the model with id as '1' }; //'Player' is a model name and contains the values to be displayed when you save the model var Player = new Backbone.Model({ fname:"Sachin", lname:"Tendulkar" }); //The 'save()' method saves data of the model by delegating to sync() method Player.save(); //Update the model with a value Player.save({country: "india"}); </script> </body> </html> BackboneJS - Sync Backbone.sync Backbone.emulateJSON