backbone.base v0.0.8

Backbone.base

Backbone.base is a collection of helper classes and common logic useful when developing backbone applications. Specifically, this project contains:

• BaseView

• BaseModel

How to use it

Install the library via NPM (you'll need browserify or wrapup in order to compile the final JS for the browser in your build process):

npm install backbone.base

Simply require backbone.base into your files. you'll get an aggregate object containing:

Using Backbone.base.View

The view class exported by backbone.base will give you automatic subview lifecycle management. The view class automatically listen to changes in the model and renders; When instanced, the class can be provided with a 'model' or 'collection' attribute and will render (and listen for changes) accordingly; if both 'model' and 'collection' properties are provided, the view will listen for both of them. The class exports also the following 'hooks' functions:

• serialize() : json

• augmentViewModel(json) : json

The base view class provides also a few useful functions:

• renderSubviews

• setSubview(name, selector, view)

• getSubview(name)

• storeSubview(name, view)

lifecycle functions

The following hooks are automatically called if defined in your view extending Backbone.base.View :

• beforeRender
• afterRender

Internal functions not normally used by the developer (but still available if necessary) are:

• cleanSubview(name)

• cleanSubviews