calling javascript on rendering views in BackBone js. post-render callback?

Question

behold, a backbone view render call:

render: function() {
  $(this.el).html(this.template({title: \'test\'}));  //#1
  this.renderScatterChart();
  return th         


        

Answer 1

If you don't want to use the setTimeout hack, I think this way is more 'normal':

Just pass the $el element to the function that needs to manipulate elements added by render() and then DOM manipulation can be done on $el.