Backbone.js Views
In the following segment, we are gong to look at views in Backbone.js.
The files for demo and download for the following discussion can be found below if you’d like to follow along…
What is a View?
As the name suggests, a “view” has to do with something you “view” on your screen (wow, what a concept!) :). But if you have done any programming in other languages before and you’re familiar with the Model View Controller software design pattern, the same pattern that Backbone.js follows (albeit very roughly), sometimes you have to take a moment to think about what is being referred to when talking about a view. Often times when you think of a “view” in an application framework such as CodeIgniter, ASP.NET MVC, or Django you tend to think of an entire rendered page of output (at least I do). Yes there are things like “partial views” and other components of MVC that don’t necessarily mean that a view is an entire rendered page, but that is just the tendency that I gravitate towards. When you are returning a view in frameworks such as those, you are often doing so in response to a browser’s request and routing them to a particular web page.
Backbone.js, Model View Controller (MVC), Underscore.js
