Routing Best Practices and Subrouting | Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices

Subrouting – a key to organizing complex apps

Subrouting is the idea of dividing an application's router into a number of module-specific routers. In a small- or medium-level application, you may never need something like this. However, for an application with multiple modules, a single router that handles all of the routes soon turns into a huge, unmanageable class. So, it is always preferable to split the main router into a set of module-specific routers.

Backbone.Subroute (https://github.com/ModelN/backbone.subroute), a wonderful extension developed by Dave Cadwallader, provides the functionality that we are talking about. It lets the base router delegate all of the module-specific routes to the subrouter associated with that module. Let's understand the difference between a router and subrouter with the two examples that follow.

The all-in-one router

The following is the code for a single router that handles the routes of all the modules of an application:

var App = {};

var App.BaseRouter...

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Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices

By : Swarnendu De

Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices

By: Swarnendu De

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Subrouting – a key to organizing complex apps

The all-in-one router

Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices

By : Swarnendu De

Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices

By: Swarnendu De

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Subrouting – a key to organizing complex apps

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