Mastering Backbone.js

Conclusions

We started by creating common view types that are common for almost every project. Those views are simple in principle but powerful; we can effectively manage nested views without worrying about insufficient memory.

We learned that, by encapsulating common patterns in the render() method, we can create useful view types; in this chapter, we have seen four of them but if you are curious I encourage you to take a look at the Marionette framework, which works on top of Backbone.

Marionette includes all the views exposed here: ItemView, CollectionView, LayoutView, Regions. and other useful view types. Marionette objects behave very similarly to what we see here, so that you can easily interchange Marionette objects with those described in ...