1.0.0 • Published 9 years ago

bev v1.0.0

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MIT
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github
Last release
9 years ago

bev

Backbone.js's event mechanism as mixin

This is a tiny lib for a tiny code improvement.

Instead of

var _ = require('underscore');
var Backbone = require('backbone');
_.extend(myObjectOrPrototype, Backbone.Events);

do

require('bev').mixin(myObjectOrPrototype);

There are benefits to scoping down your modules this way. Backbone's event mechanism is arguably its strongest point. Prefer listenTo over on and you'll need event capable objects.