Chapter 2. Working with Views

Backbone view works as the presentation layer of an application. In simple terms, you can define it as an abstract layer for your HTML element. It doesn't contain any HTML markup of its own, but it contains the logic to present your model's data with the help of JavaScript templates.

If you go through the annotated source of Backbone view, you will find that Backbone.View is a small class with very few methods, including an empty initialize() method and an almost empty render() method, which are in general meant to be overridden by any custom view class. In this chapter, we will investigate some common problems and the solutions to these problems with respect to the Backbone views that developers face mostly while developing real-world Backbone.js applications.

The basic issues with Backbone are associated with view rendering or updating and maintaining multiple views within an application. We will analyze the following topics based on complexity: