Marionette.js. View events

The view events attribute binds DOM events to functions or methods on the view. The simplest form is to reference a method on the view

by marionettejs

HTML

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.2.2/jquery.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/1.3.3/backbone-min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/backbone.radio/2.0.0/backbone.radio.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://rawgit.com/marionettejs/backbone.marionette/next/lib/backbone.marionette.js"></script>

JavaScript

const { View, Region } = Marionette; // import { View } from 'backbone.marionette';

const MyView = View.extend({
	template: _.template('<a href="">Show modal</a>'),
  events: {
    'click a': 'showModal'
  },

  showModal(event) {
	  event.preventDefault();
    console.log('Show the modal');
  }
});

const region =  new Region({ el: $('body') });

region.show(new MyView());