Backbone 101: Routers

by kyllle

HTML

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.0.0-alpha1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/underscore.js/1.8.3/underscore-min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/backbone.js/1.2.2/backbone-min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/normalize/3.0.3/normalize.css">
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/backbone-localstorage.js/1.1.16/backbone.localStorage-min.js"></script>
<h2 class="pg-heading">Routers</h2>
<p>Routers map faux-URLs to actions, and fire events when routes are matched. Creating a new one sets its routes hash, if not set statically.</p>
<a href="http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html#section-183" target="_blank">Routers - Annotated Source</a>
<br>
<a href="http://addyosmani.github.io/backbone-fundamentals/#routers">Routers - Addy Osmani Backbone Fundamentals</a>

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CSS

@import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,400,500);

* {
  -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}

body {
    font-family: Roboto;
    padding: 16px;
    line-height: 1.5;
    font-weight: normal;
    color: #ccc;
    background: #292929;
    font-size: 18px;
}

h1, h2, h3 {
    font-weight: normal;
}

h3 ~ p {
    margin-top: 0;
}

p {
    opacity: 0.86;
}

.pg-heading {
    margin-bottom: 0;
}

a {
    color: #95baf6;
    transition: opacity .3s;
}

a:hover {
    opacity: 0.75;
}

pre {
    display: block;
    padding: 9.5px;
    margin: 0 0 10px;
    font-size: 13px;
    line-height: 1.428571429;
    color: #333;
    word-break: break-all;
    word-wrap: break-word;
    background-color: #f5f5f5;
    /* border: 1px solid #ccc; */
    border-radius: 4px;
}

pre.app {
    opacity: 0.35;   
    transition: opacity .3s;
    position: relative;
}

pre.app:after {
    content: 'App Example';
    padding: 3px 8px;
    background: #95baf6;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    right: 0;
    border-radius: 0 4px 0 0;
}

pre.app:hover {
    opacity: 1;
}

JavaScript

console.clear();

var Router = Backbone.Router.extend({
    
    routes: {
        '': 'onShowMovies',
        'movie/:id': 'onShowMovie',
        'movie': 'onShowMovie',
        'watchlist': 'onShowWatchlist'
    },
    
    initialize: function() {
        console.log('Starting Router');
    },
    
    onShowMovies: function() {
        console.log('Show movies');
    },
    
    onShowMovie: function() {
        console.log('Show movie', id);
    },
    
    onShowWatchlist: function() {
        console.log('Show watchlist');
    }
});

var router = new Router();