Comments on: Backbone.js: Object Literals, Views Events, jQuery, and `el`

By: Carlitos AR

Carlitos AR — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:25:00 +0000

Great Article! However, is it just me or it’s just the way it’s supposed to be that when the article refers to an example, the code for is never displayed. Still an awesome article, though.

By: asaf

asaf — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:57:00 +0000

Awesome! You somehow managed to explain something extremely important in simple words. You helped me in a 5 days old issue!

By: Eric Barr

Eric Barr — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:04:00 +0000

So others can save the time, that article doesn’t cut against Derick’s statement. Rather the article points out that the hash-space in javascript is polluted with some preexisting ‘keys’ and describes how to work around the issues.

By: Janne

Janne — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:11:00 +0000

You. Are. My. Hero! :) I’m just a noob practicing backbone and have been struggling with this exact problem for the past hour. This was the best explanation ever and with it I got it fixed.

Thank you Derick!

By: Stanislas Marion

Stanislas Marion — Tue, 29 May 2012 11:39:00 +0000

> Object literals in JavaScript are also known by a number of other names: hashes, associative arrays, key/value sets, JSON,I really like your articles, but this put me off. It is simply not true that an object is a hash and saying that is very misleading. See http://www.devthought.com/2012/01/18/an-object-is-not-a-hash/

By: Don

Don — Tue, 01 May 2012 01:31:00 +0000

Oops. She told me it worked using the class selector, but I guess she didn’t understand. Mea culpa, typo

By: Don Mitchell

Don Mitchell — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:36:00 +0000

We can’t get the id based selector to work (“click #someButton” in your example). When we replace it w/ a class-based selector (“click .someButtonClass”), it works. This seems fairly fundamental but is mystifying us [next step, look at the source code.]

By: Peter Rust

Peter Rust — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:40:00 +0000

orlybriceno: off the top of my head, I don’t know why the events aren’t being triggered, but here is a good blog post by derick that covers a common problem with events not being triggered:
http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2011/11/09/backbone-js-object-literals-views-events-jquery-and-el/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:38:00 +0000

Hey there, thanks for the explanation. I want to ask you something would this work for backbone 0.5.3? that’s the version we’re using, and I’m specifying both tagName and className, the elements are being created and rendered correctly (I do an alert with this.el in the render method and see the markup is as I indicated), and as you said I have a single element view that renders itself and a ‘directory’ view that call the single one and appends the singles to the document ; but still the events are not being triggered, and I don’t have any control of the ready section since Im working as a part of a bigger project and the architecture is basically inamovible . Thanks in advance.

By: Paul Garvin

Paul Garvin — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:29:00 +0000

Thanks so much for this post. I’m writing my first Backbone app and I’ve been pulling my hair out wondering why nothing was working.