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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

Subrouting – a key to organizing complex apps


Subrouting is the idea of dividing an application's router into a number of module-specific routers. In a small- or medium-level application, you may never need something like this. However, for an application with multiple modules, a single router that handles all of the routes soon turns into a huge, unmanageable class. So, it is always preferable to split the main router into a set of module-specific routers.

Backbone.Subroute (https://github.com/ModelN/backbone.subroute), a wonderful extension developed by Dave Cadwallader, provides the functionality that we are talking about. It lets the base router delegate all of the module-specific routes to the subrouter associated with that module. Let's understand the difference between a router and subrouter with the two examples that follow.

The all-in-one router

The following is the code for a single router that handles the routes of all the modules of an application:

var App = {};

var App.BaseRouter...
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