Book Image

Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices

By : Swarnendu De
Book Image

Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices

By: Swarnendu De

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Backbone.js Patterns and Best Practices
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Precompiling Templates on the Server Side
Index

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...