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

If you are sure that the ParentView has the events defined as object and you don't need to define events dynamically in ChildView it is possible to simplify soldier.moth's answer further by getting rid of the function and using _.extend directly:

var ParentView = Backbone.View.extend({
    events: {
        'click': 'onclick'
    }
});

var ChildView = ParentView.extend({
    events: _.extend({}, ParentView.prototype.events, {
        'click' : 'onclickChild'
    })
});