Using the Backbone.js router to navigate through views modularized with require.js

Question

I am separating my views and router into separate files with require. I then have a main.js file that instantiates the router, and also renders my default view.

My r

Answer 1

for me i added an object to the main application like so;

define(['jquery','underscore','backbone','views/personView','views/peopleView','views/textView'],function($,_,backbone,PersonView,PeopleView,TitleView){

    var Router = Backbone.Router.extend({
           routes:{
               '':'home',
               'edit/:id':'editPerson',
               'new':'editPerson',
               'delete/:id':'deletePerson'
               }
            })

              var initialize = function(){

                 var router  = new Router();

                 window.app = {
                     router:router
                     }

        router.on('route:home',function(){


    })

            //enable routing using '#'[hashtag] navigation
        Backbone.history.start();

            };

            return {
            initialize:initialize
            };

});

and inside your view, you can say windows.app.router.navigate({'',trigger:true}) . Don't know if global scoping is good practice in this case, but it worked for me.