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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

Displaying podcasts


The next step will be to display the list of podcasts that the user is subscribed to. We start with the PodcastListView class, which will display the collection. Here's that class:

var PodcastListView = Backbone.View.extend({
  className: 'list-group',
  initialize: function (options) {
    this.current = options.current || null;
    this.listenTo(this.collection, 'add', this.render);
  },
  render: function () {
    if (this.collection.length === 0) {
      this.el.innerHTML = "<a class='list-group-item'>No Podcasts</a>";
      return this;
    }
    this.el.innerHTML = '';
    this.collection.forEach(this.renderItem, this);
    return this;
  },
  renderItem: function (model) {
    model.set({ current: this.current === model.get('id') });
    var v = new PodcastListItemView({ model: model });
    this.el.appendChild(v.render().el);
  }
});

For Bootstrap, we'll add the list-group class to the view's element. In the initialize method, we'll check the options...