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Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices Improve your Backbone.js skills with this step-by-step guide to patterns and best practice. It will help you reduce boilerplate in your code and provide plenty of open source plugin solutions to common problems along the way.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783283576
Length 174 pages
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Reducing Boilerplate with Plugin Development FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Views 3. Working with Models 4. Working with Collections 5. Routing Best Practices and Subrouting 6. Working with Events, Sync, and Storage 7. Organizing Backbone Applications – Structure, Optimize, and Deploy 8. Unit Test, Stub, Spy, and Mock Your App Books, Tutorials, and References Precompiling Templates on the Server Side
Organizing Templates with AMD and Require.js Index

Using Marionette's ItemView, CollectionView, and CompositeView


Marionette (http://marionettejs.com/) is a composite application library for Backbone.js. Developed by Derick Bailey, it is a collection of common patterns and solutions to Backbone problems. It is a great library and lots of developers use it for their Backbone-based applications.

One important thing about Marionette is that it offers several separate packages for views, regions, and so on, and allows you to use any of them freely without requiring the complete library. In this section, we will explore Marionette's ItemView, the CollectionView, and the CompositeView functionalities. These views solve a number of problems we discussed in the previous sections.

ItemView

ItemView represents a single view for an item, it can be a model view or a collection view. It extends the Marionette.View class, which is a core view with a number of reusable functions. Marionette.View takes care of triggering, delegating, and undelegating events...

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