The search function could use a little love. You want to pass nodes into the view constructor, rather than hard-code selectors all over the place. This lets you unit test your code without a real DOM.
Think in terms of separating DOM access, network IO, and your transformation logic on the returned JSON. This is the start of splitting out concerns. If you try to figure out how you could test different parts without the network (encapsulate IO in an object, swap out a mock) or the DOM (a DOM node abstraction), you'll start to naturally break the code into pieces that are MVCish. Hope this helps a little Jared On Nov 9, 2011 6:17 PM, "Andrew Dodson" <andrew.j.dod...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello, any one know much about MVC patterns in JavaScript? + have 5 minutes to read a little code? *demo*: http://mrswitch.github.com/pic-n-flick/ There is only one file doing the work. *script*: https://github.com/MrSwitch/pic-n-flick/blob/master/js/script.js I haven't had much experience with MVC structure and this is my first kick about with Backbone.js. I had a lot of problems with it. And was totally stumped trying to manage two Views or even two collections+models firing the correct triggers on the right Views... it all got a bit messy there. I hence shelved the first attempt at https://github.com/MrSwitch/pic-n-flick/blob/master/js/script_kaput.js I also couldn't bind an event to the *window* object via backbone's delegateEvents<http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#View-delegateEvents>, without hacking it separatly. Any insight into the sobering world of MVC or backbone would be fantastic. A -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@jsmentors.com/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@googlegroups.com/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jsmentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@jsmentors.com/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/jsmentors@googlegroups.com/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jsmentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
