backbone.viewx v0.4.0

Backbone.View flavoured with sub view management routines and DOM insertion methods.

View = require 'backbone.viewx'

class MyView extends View

  render: ->
    this.header = @view(new Header)
      .render()
      .prependTo(this.el)
    this.content = @view(new Content)
      .render()
      .appendTo(this.el)
    # appendTo, prependTo, appendAfter, appendBefore
    # and inverse methods
    # append, prepend, after, before
    # are also available

  onEnterDOM: ->
    # this method will be called when view's element is attached to the DOM,
    # useful for triggering relayout and animations