Backbone View: Inherit and extend events from parent

Question

Backbone\'s documentation states:

The events property may also be defined as a function that returns an events hash, to make it easier to programmatic

Answer 1

I've found a more interesting solutions in this article

It use of the Backbone’s super and ECMAScript’s hasOwnProperty. The second of its progressives examples works like a charm. Here's a bit a code :

var ModalView = Backbone.View.extend({
    constructor: function() {
        var prototype = this.constructor.prototype;

        this.events = {};
        this.defaultOptions = {};
        this.className = "";

        while (prototype) {
            if (prototype.hasOwnProperty("events")) {
                _.defaults(this.events, prototype.events);
            }
            if (prototype.hasOwnProperty("defaultOptions")) {
                _.defaults(this.defaultOptions, prototype.defaultOptions);
            }
            if (prototype.hasOwnProperty("className")) {
                this.className += " " + prototype.className;
            }
            prototype = prototype.constructor.__super__;
        }

        Backbone.View.apply(this, arguments);
    },
    ...
});

You can also do that for ui and attributes.

This example does not take care of the properties set by a function, but the author of the article offers a solution in that case.