Backbone Design

Question

I\'m just getting started with Backbone. I went through the first two PeepCode screencasts which were great and now I\'m digging in on a quick detached (no server side) mock

Answer 1

From a classical MVC perspective, your views respond to changes in their associated models.

//initialize for view
initialize : function() {
    this.model.on("change", this.render(), this);
}

The idea here is that anytime a view's model is changed, it'll render itself.

Alternatively or additionally, if you change something on a view, you can trigger an event that the controller listens to. If the controller also created the other models, it can modify them in some meaningful way, then if you're listening for changes to the models the views will change as well.