Binding Backbone.js events to a bus

[TravisTheTechie]

Binding Backbone.js events to a bus

[ifandelse]

Proxies are not widespread at all at this point, unfortunately. You'd have better luck with Object.defineProperty (to create getters/setters into which you could inject custom behavior) - but you'll still lose on out anything prior to IE9 I think (IE8 has defineProperty, but only for DOM elements, go figure!). I'm currently working on a BB project where we have custom model implementations that have an overridden constructor, in which we wire the model into the bus and direct all the model CRUD operations to the bus (this overrides Backbone.sync as well), so that the models are entirely transport agnostic and use the bus behind the scenes to send and receive updates/commands. It's actually worked out very well for us - with a major benefit being that multiple instances interested in the same data are always in sync since they subscribe to the same topic (we use a convention of {modelType.id.operation} for the topics). Anyways - all that to say that what you're doing (wanting to bridge views, etc.) with the bus makes a lot of sense if the object in question has a real need to publish outside of any object that would already have direct access to it - though I'd recommend data publishing to be done from the model rather than the view....

[TravisTheTechie]

So after some more reading, I see most stuff doesn't support proxies. We at least support <IE9 via chrome frame (our site little doesn't do hardly anything without Chrome Frame and pops up every page load telling you stuff doesn't work). So we have some other options.

After some more thought, maybe I can just abuse topics to something similar. If I pick less general channels, that should work out okay.

Who actually writes an app with CRUD operations anymore? Our only CRUD page is the settings page.