Comments on: Composite Views: Tree Structures, Tables, And More

By: Peter Caisse

Peter Caisse — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:37:00 +0000

I’m having an issue trying to pass options from the TreeRoot to the TreeView. Here’s my stackoverflow question about it:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16446061/pass-options-from-collectionview-to-recursive-compositeview

Would anyone be able to shed some light?

By: Jesse Drelick

Jesse Drelick — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:24:00 +0000

I found this terrific article that breaks down the different Marionette views visually quite wonderfully. Worthwhile mention: http://blog.artlogic.com/2013/03/26/a-visual-guide-to-marionette-js-views/

By: Paul Dailly

Paul Dailly — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:20:00 +0000

Thanks very much! This was just the article I was looking for to help figure out how to manage my composite views!

By: Joe Zimmerman

Joe Zimmerman — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:44:00 +0000

Interesting solution. I like it.

I ended up removing the UL from the template and using onCompositeModelRendered or onBeforeRender to add a UL in if it was needed. I think your solution may be a bit wiser though because it doesn’t assume as much about what is contained or should be contained in the template. Obviously the `itemViewContainer:’ul’` breaks that idea a little bit, but at least this way it’s just a minor configuration instead of logic.

By: luis manuel ruiz

luis manuel ruiz — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:47:00 +0000

Very good article.

Muchas gracias desde España, lástima que mi inglés no sea suficientemente bueno, y algunas cosas me cueste entenderlas.
Muchas gracias de nuevo por tu proyecto Marionette.

Un saludo.

By: Dmitri Zaitsev

Dmitri Zaitsev — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 22:04:00 +0000

Seems like I found another simplification, which avoids the painful inserting/removing the “ul” tags:
http://jsfiddle.net/dmitri14/St2dB/1/

By: Dmitri Zaitsev

Dmitri Zaitsev — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:04:00 +0000

If anything else can be simplified or there are any simpler implementation of backbone tree view anywhere on the web, that would be very helpful!

I could only find longer and more complicated solutions elsewhere.

By: Dmitri Zaitsev

Dmitri Zaitsev — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:57:00 +0000

Hi Derick,

Thank you so much, it is really helpful!

Seems I confused data points (properties) with Backbone attributes.

You mention additional complexity when storing child models (or collections like in this examples) in a parent model’s attribute. Is it just the matter of using set and get instead of direct references or is there some sensitive “Backbone magic” around it?

Thanks again!

By: Derick Bailey

Derick Bailey — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:47:00 +0000

yes, there are a lot of things that could simplified in this blog post. Marionette has changed a lot since I wrote this post, 8 months ago :)

By: Dmitri Zaitsev

Dmitri Zaitsev — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:20:00 +0000

It seems the first example can be simplified a bit by using the itemViewContainer attribute instead of the custom appendHtml method:

http://jsfiddle.net/dmitri14/St2dB/