Backbone.Marionette routes helper

Adds helper methods for Backbone.Marionette routes

Backbone.Marionette routes helper is the simple plugin which provides you methods with routes names for your application.

How to install:

npm install marionette-routes-helper

Browser:

<script>...</script>
<script src="backbone.radio.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="backbone.marionette.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="marionette-routes-helper.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Common JS:

var MarionetteRoutesHelper = require('marionette-routes-helper');

How to use:

First you should initialize routes helper and pass to it the application root path.

MarionetteRoutesHelper.initialize({ root: '/' });

Next you should bind routes helper to your router. For example:

var Controller = Marionette.Object.extend({
  method: function() { ... }
});

var Router = Marionette.AppRouter.extend({
  appRoutes: {
    "some/route": "method"
  },

  routes: {
    "other/route/:id": "otherMethod"
  },

  controller: new Controller()

  otherMethod: function() { ... }
});

MarionetteRoutesHelper.bind('myrouter', new Router());

Now routes methods are available for you. They are based on the following pattern routerName + RouterMethodName + "Path"

MarionetteRoutesHelper.myrouterMethodPath() // returns "some/route"
MarionetteRoutesHelper.myrouterOtherMethodPath(12) // returns "other/route/12"

Options

{
  root: '/' // application root path
}

Methods

initialize

Signature: .initialize(options)

initialize sets base options

initialized

Signature: .initialized()

initialized returns boolean which define routes helper state. It is sometimes useful to check whether your routes helper is already initialized.

if (!MarionetteRoutesHelper.initialized()) {
  MarionetteRoutesHelper.initialize({ root: '' });
}

bind

Signature: .bind(routerName, routerInstance)

bind binds routes helper with router instance

rootPath

Signature: .rootPath()

rootPath returns the root path value which passed to it in initialize method

Thanks to:

• The Marionette team for backbone.marionette.js
• Anton Gudkov for the idea and first draft