backbone.bootstrap

An extension to backbone to support easily bootstrapping data for models and collections.

Installation

Install as a bower component using bower install backbone.bootstrap --save.

The application will automatically bind to the page when its included as part of your javascript output.

Usage

You can use any number of server side techniques to include the following elements into the DOM that your javascript application is included on.

<script type="application/json" data-url="/api/service/endpoint/1">
	{"id": "2", "name": "john smith"}
</script>

All script tags with the type application/json and a data-url property and valid JSON will automatically be returned from any Backbone request that matches the url specified in the data-url property.

Options

On any identified and valid script tag, other attributes can be specified in the format data-{attribute} from the list below.

• usage - (default: once) one of these values 'once', 'forever'. Determines for how long the bootstrap value will be returned.

Contributors

Special thanks go to https://github.com/ianllewellyn and https://github.com/apjones6 for help with this library.

History

• 2.0.5

  • Changes to how _cacheSync executes to be asynchronous

• 2.0.4

  • Preventing forever usage from allowing reference updates to cache objects

• 2.0.3

  • Fixing cache keys being ignored when jQuery cache busting is applied

• 2.0.2

  • Ensuring complete method is called as well as success

• 2.0.1

  • Fixing issues creating the cache key options.data is just a string rather than an object

• 2.0.0

  • Some libraries implement their own sync methods. This meant support wasn't complete. Changed internal implementation to proxy Backbone.ajax instead.

• 1.1.1

  • Fixing handling of query string urls created by backbone models/collections

• 1.1.0

  • Supporting usage option on bootstrap data for greater flexibility

• 1.0.2

  • Preventing cache items being used more than once. This will allow polling type use cases
  • Ensuring that the complete callback is called when provided

• 1.0.1

  • Preventing DOM order for bootstrap elements preventing their inclusion in cache

• 1.0.0

  • Functional bootstrap enhancements to backbone