Backbone.js/RequireJS generator

Maintainer: Matt Przybylski

A Backbone generator that uses RequireJS for Yeoman that provides a functional boilerplate Backbone app out of the box. You also get access to a number of sub-generators which can be used to easily create individual models, views, collections and so on.

This is technically a fork of the official Yeoman Backbone.js generator that has been heavily edited to suit my needs and coding style. I've added Jade templating and removed anything that I don't use or that I viewed as unnecessary.

Usage

Install: npm install -g generator-bbr

Make a new directory and cd into it:

mkdir my-new-project && cd $_

Run yo bbr, optionally passing an app name:

yo bbr [app-name]

Generators

Available generators:

• bbr:model
• bbr:view
• bbr:collection
• bbr:router
• bbr:all

Typical workflow

yo bbr # generates your application base and build workflow
yo bbr:model blog
yo bbr:collection blog
yo bbr:router blog
yo bbr:view blog
grunt server

You could also optionally pass a second parameter to the subgenerator that will define the directory structure to put the files into:

yo bbr:model modelname directory/to/put/it
yo bbr:collection collectionname directory/to/put/it
yo bbr:router routername directory/to/put/it
yo bbr:view viewname directory/to/put/it

Collection subgenerators also take a third parameter (optional) that allows you to define the path to your model:

yo bbr:collection collectionname directory/to/put/it path/to/model

So, in the case that you have the following structure:

|-- js
|   |-- models
|       |-- test
|           |-- test.js

And you want to create a collection for TestModel (the name of the model from test.js), you would run this:

yo bbr:collection test test test # first is name of collection, second is directory to create it in, third is path to model

This would generate the following:

|-- js
|   |-- collections
|       |-- test
|           |-- test.js # TestCollection
|   |-- models
|       |-- test
|           |-- test.js # TestModel

Now TestCollection references TestModel with the define statement looking for models/test/test and passing it in as TestModel for reference within the collection.

NOTE: Do not put beginning or trailing slashes on the directory structure!

Options

• --skip-install

  Skips the automatic execution of bower and npm after scaffolding has finished.

• --test-framework=[framework]

  Defaults to mocha. Can be switched for another supported testing framework like jasmine.

A note regarding JST templates and strict mode

If you use strict mode in your app and JST templates the default grunt-jst implementation will cause your app to error out as the templates will be precompiled using a 'with' statement.

This can be addressed by changing the jst grunt task as follows:

jst: {
    compile: {
        options:
        {
            templateSettings:
            {
                variable: 'data'
            }
        },
        files: {
            '.tmp/scripts/templates.js': ['<%= yeoman.app %>/scripts/templates/*.ejs']
        }
    }
},

A result of this change is that your template variable definitions must also be updated from <%= templateVariable %> to <%= data.templateVariable %>. More information on this can be found in the Underscore documentation.

License

MIT license