Backbone.Layout

A simple layout manager for Backbone. Backbone.Layout provides easy view life cycle managment for composite views.

API

.setView(view[, selector][, options])

• view an instance of a Backbone view
• selector a css selector (optional)
• options configuration options (optional)
  • append by default, setView replaces views
  • cache cache long-running views when replacing (do not call remove or render)
  • toggle similar to cache, do not call remove or render. Instead toggles view.$el, preserving UI state such as the scroll bar.

This attaches a view to a selector. If no selector is provided, the view is attached to the layouts el. Multiple views may be attached to a single element with the append option. Long-running views may be preserved across renders and replacements with the cache option.

Development

This project uses a gulp-based build, npm for package management, and mocha, jshint and phantomjs for testing. The development source is in backbone.layout.js and tests are in spec/. `To begin devleopment:

• npm install install packages
• gulp starts the develpment watcher
• gulp test executes the test suite
• gulp build builds the production version