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Mastering Backbone.js

You're reading from   Mastering Backbone.js Design and build scalable web applications using Backbone.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783288496
Length 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Architecture of a Backbone application 2. Managing Views FREE CHAPTER 3. Model Bindings 4. Modular Code 5. Dealing with Files 6. Store data in the Browser 7. Build Like a Pro 8. Testing Backbone Applications 9. Deploying to Production 10. Authentication Index

Identifying view types


After working with Backbone for a while you can see common use cases for views emerge; they are so common they can be used for different unrelated projects. These views can be extracted and can be used on any project if they are built correctly. Looking at the Backbone documentation, Views do not implement a default render method, so the trick here is to define a set of views with a default render method for different use cases:

  • View with model – Render a template with model data.

  • View with collection – Render a collection of views with collection data; it should update the list of views automatically when the collection changes.

  • Region – This view acts like a container; it points to a particular DOM node and manages the content for that node. It's used to render other views.

  • Layout – A layout is composed of one or more regions; it defines an HTML structure to organize where the regions will be placed.

Figure 2.1 shows a simple wireframe for an application; as you can...

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