backbone.js

I ran into this post which seems interesting var myView = Backbone.View.extend({ initialize: function(options) { _.bindAll(this, ‘beforeRender’, ‘render’, ‘afterRender’); var _this = this; this.render = _.wrap(this.render, function(render) { _this.beforeRender(); render(); _this.afterRender(); return _this; }); }, beforeRender: function() { console.log(‘beforeRender’); }, render: function() { return this; }, afterRender: function() { console.log(‘afterRender’); } });

The first argument of save is the attributes to save on the model: this.model.save( {att1 : “value”}, {success :handler1, error: handler2});

You can take advantage of view.setElement to render a complete template and use it as the view element. setElement view.setElement(element) If you’d like to apply a Backbone view to a different DOM element, use setElement, which will also create the cached $el reference and move the view’s delegated events from the old element to the … Read more

listenTo is the newer and better option because these listeners will be automatically removed for you during stopListening which is called when a view gets removed (via remove()). Prior to listenTo there was a really insidious problem with phantom views hanging around forever (leaking memory and causing misbehavior) because view methods were referenced as event … Read more