Destroy or remove a view in Backbone.js

Question

I\'m currently trying to implement a destroy/remove method for views but I can\'t get a generic solution to work for all my views.

I was hoping there would be an eve

Answer 1

I know I am late to the party, but hopefully this will be useful for someone else. If you are using backbone v0.9.9+, you could use, listenTo and stopListening

initialize: function () {
    this.listenTo(this.model, 'change', this.render);
    this.listenTo(this.model, 'destroy', this.remove);
}

stopListening is called automatically by remove. You can read more here and here