Better solution for nested Backbone.js collections

Question

Many of my Backbone models often deal with nested models and collections, so far I\'m using a combination of defaults, parse and toJSON ma

Answer 1

I don't see any problem with your approach.

IMHO the Model.parse() method if for this: to be overwritten in case special parse behavior needs.

The only think I'd change would be things like this:

if (res.tags) res.tags = new ACME.Tags(res.tags);

For this:

if (res.tags) this.tags.reset(res.tags);

Due you already have an instance of ACME.Tags collection I'd reuse it.

Also I don't really like the defaults implementation, I'm used to do this initializations in the Model.initialize() but I think is a matter of taste.