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Anna
Anna

Reputation: 121

Instantiating Routers Backbone

Hi I am struggling through working with backbone routers, and I am wanting to find out about instantiating routers.

Can I have one routers file in my app where all the routes are defined, but I make an instance of the router in my appView and in my appModel. I am doing this so that I can call the router from both the view and the model, however I feel that this might be a rather sloppy way to do this?

Is there a better way?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 46

Answers (1)

acmisiti
acmisiti

Reputation: 513

The best way to handle this that has worked for me in the past is to create a global javascript file that is included on every page:

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
window.APP          = {};
APP.Routers         = {};
</script>

Render the router once on page load:

APP.Routers['my_router_name'] = new MyRouterName({});

Now you can access it anyplace throughout the app by 

APP.Routers.my_router_name

I tend to follow this pattern with not only routers, but also we collections, models, etc. also.

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
window.APP          = {};
APP.Routers         = {};
APP.Collections     = {};
APP.Models          = {};
</script>

This solves the problem you have stated here it seems...."I am doing this so that I can call the router from both the view and the model".

Upvotes: 1

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