bquery

when I realized that in the end backbone is just javascript and suffers from the same inheritence problems due to its crappy prototype object model. And you manually have to deal with event disposal when destroying views in backbone. just google backbone ghost views, I realized maybe it wasn't the best thing for the job after all. edit: the top comment mentions mixins, good stuff https://github.com/jb55/bquery but personally i can't wait until we get a proper replacement for javascript, like dart maybe.

When we started using Backbone it was good for awhile until there was so much code duplication all over the place. We decided to build a small declarative API on top of backbone that allows us to easily compose views by mixing in common functionality. It looks something like this: AlbumsView = bQuery.view() .set("el", "#albums-view") .init((opts={})-> @readOnly = opts.readOnly or no @app = opts.app ) .use(Mixins.bq.init('albums')) .use(Mixins.bq.collection tag: "#album-list" createView: (m) -> AlbumView = Views.AlbumView(readOnly: @readOnly) new AlbumView { model: m, app: @app } ) .use(Mixins.bq.filterable pred: (album, ftext) -> album.get('title').indexOf(ftext) is 0 filterTag: "#filter" collectionTag: "#album-li