backbone.dominus

A uses dominus instead of jQuery to allow Backbone to work with leaner dependencies.

Installation

bower install backbone.dominus

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Will work with AMD, CommonJS, and also adds Backbone.DomView to the root Backbone object.

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By default Backbone will try to require('jquery') and load the global jQuery object $ into Backbone.$. For AMD you can set up require path configs to point jquery to dominus, and for CommonJS you can use aliasify to do the same.

Dependencies

• Dominus for dom querying and view.$el abstractions
• Reqwest for Backbone.ajax functionality

Usage

A new view type is exposed called Backbone.DomView and can be extended. See Backbone.NativeView for other examples.

var view = Backbone.DomView.extend({
   //...
});

For Development

git clone https://github.com/adamsea/backbone.dominus.git
npm install
bower install

Run the Tests

npm test

Why do this?

Backbone.NativeView is a great reference example for building a jQuery-free Backbone. However, for ease of development within the Backbone ecosystem I was looking for lightweight jQuery replacements that could be useful on their own, while solving common problems.

Dominus is a good general-purpose DOM querying and manipulation library that will handle the following:

• Context-rooted queries in qSA - properly scoped lookup of view.$el sub-elements
• Event normalization - manages both attachEvent and addEventListener
• A jQuery-like fluent api for managing the DOM

Reqwest runs in jQuery-compat mode to work with Backbone Model and Collection instances, and gives you a solid api for making your own requests.