Backbone SuperRouter

Backbone Router powerpack

Usage

SuperRouter replaces the built-in Backbone routing system with a different way of doing things.

To create a route do the following:

var SuperRouter = require('backbone.superrouter');
SuperRouter.Route.create({
  url: "users/:user_id",
  route: function(){
    alert("normal routing stuff here!");
  }
});

And then you can use the normal Backbone.history.navigate('users/1', {trigger: true}) to get to this route.

Any options passed to the navigate function are available inside of the route (by default) from this.options. Also any query parameters (yes they work) are available from this.options (but navigate overrides any) or this.query

Note the use of Route.create as this creates the route and adds it to the list of routes in the system.

Route object

Route.create(obj)

Create a route with the specified objects.

Required elements on obj are url and route.

obj.route(...)

The route function. Any url params specified in url will be passed as url parameters (like Backbone does)

obj.unroute()

This is called when you are no longer the current route and another route has been activated. By default this does nothing.

obj.url

The url to match on. This is the same as Backbone.

obj.matches(fragment)

Returns true if the route matches fragment. The default works the same as Backbone, however you can override it if you want to.

By default we put the result in this.matchedURL.

obj.run(fragment, options)

This is called to run the route if it matched. This function will need to parse the fragment of any url and query parameters, deal with the options hash (defaults to putting in this.options) and then call the obj.run(...) function.

obj.initialize()

Create the route. By default this constructs the regex used to match with

Route.extend(objs)

Normal Backbone extend style.

Allows you to create abstract Routes. This useful when doing things such as creating generic routes (for example if you want the ability to pass a dialog option to any route etc). This does not require url or route.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Joe Simpson

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