Re:Sample App with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap
by dts on Monday February 13, 2012 @04:23PM
(#3587396)
Hmmm. Any reason all the views and models are attached to the window object instead of namespaced under some kind of app controller?
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Re:Sample App with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap
by tbranyen on Monday February 13, 2012 @04:49PM
(#3587477)
There are a number of issues with the project, but I'm assuming it was created this way to be easier to digest for newcomers.
Re:Sample App with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap
by smcguinness on Monday February 13, 2012 @05:00PM
(#3587510)
Would you point out a few of them if you don't mind?
Re:Sample App with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap
by danso on Monday February 13, 2012 @05:13PM
(#3587557)
Yeah, as a newcomer to Backbone, this has always been something that's thrown me off, including in the otherwise excellent Todo example:
http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/docs/todos.html
The backbone boilerplate on Github (by tbranyen) has been a useful model to follow: https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate/blob/master...
Re:Sample App with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap
by VMG on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @04:08AM
(#3589249)
DocumentCloud (by the creator of Backbone) is also using window-bound variables. Seems to work for them I suppose.
Re:Sample App with Backbone.js and Twitter Bootstrap
by jashkenas on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @07:44AM
(#3589757)
Yes, when you're in control of the page, it's nice to be able to have different parts of your app ready-to-hand. In our case, that means Documents, Notes, Projects, Accounts, Organizations, and so on...
If your "app" is going to be embedded as a part of someone else's page, then you have to be much more careful. The results cards in the sidebar here are only exposed through a single variable: "eg2012.Card":
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/us/politics/minnesota-colo...