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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 month view


The month view will display the month as a table, just like a wall calendar. Events will show within the cell of the appropriate day. This will require several nested views, so let's begin with the Month view. Here's how we start:

App.Views.Month = Backbone.View.extend({
  template: JST.month,
  render: function () {
    this.el.innerHTML = this.template(this.model.toJSON());
    var weeks = this.model.get('weeks');

    for (var i = 0; i < weeks; i++) {
      this.$("tbody").append(new App.Views.WeekRow({
        week  : i,
        model : this.model,
        collection: this.collection
      }).render().el);
    }
    return this;
  }
});

We'll give this class a JST.month template and a render method. Before we discuss the render method, let's take a look at the template file.

Note

Notice how we're not naming our views MonthView and WeekRowView, as we had before. Instead, they're just Month and WeekRow. We're doing this because we'll have to refer to them as App...