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Backbone.js Blueprints

By : Andrew Burgess
Book Image

Backbone.js Blueprints

By: Andrew Burgess

Overview of this book

<p>Backbone.js is an open source, JavaScript library that helps you to build sophisticated and structured web apps. It's important to have well-organized frontend code for easy maintenance and extendability. With the Backbone framework, you'll be able to build applications that are a breeze to manage.<br /><br />In this book, you will discover how to build seven complete web applications from scratch. You'll learn how to use all the components of the Backbone framework individually, and how to use them together to create fully featured applications. In addition, you'll also learn how Backbone thinks so you can leverage it to write the most efficient frontend JavaScript code.<br /><br />Through this book, you will learn to write good server-side JavaScript to support your frontend applications. This easy-to-follow guide is packed with projects, code, and solid explanations that will give you the confidence to write your own web applications from scratch.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Backbone.js Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating the individual photo page


We've used the PhotoView class twice now; it creates a link, as you might recall, to an individual page for each photo. Let's create that page next. This time, we'll start in the router. First, add this route to the routes property:

'photo/:id': 'showPhoto',

Then, here's the showPhoto method is partners with:

showPhoto: function (id) {
  var thiz = this,
    photo = new Photo({ id : parseInt(id, 10) });
        
  photo.fetch().then(function () {
    var comments = new Comments({ photo: photo }),
    var photoView = new PhotoPageView({ 
      model: photo, 
      collection: comments 
    });
            
    comments.fetch().then(function () {
      thiz.main.html(thiz.navView.render().el);
      thiz.main.append(photoView.render().el);
    });
  });
},

Just as we did with the showUser function, we get the photo data by creating a Photo instance with id, and then calling the fetch method. However, we're also creating a Comments collection based on this photo...