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

To do this entirely in the parent class and support a function-based events hash in the child class so that children can be agnostic of inheritance (the child will have to call MyView.prototype.initialize if it overrides initialize):

var MyView = Backbone.View.extend({
  events: { /* ... */ },

  initialize: function(settings)
  {
    var origChildEvents = this.events;
    this.events = function() {
      var childEvents = origChildEvents;
      if(_.isFunction(childEvents))
         childEvents = childEvents.call(this);
      return _.extend({}, MyView.prototype.events, childEvents);
    };
  }
});