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Revesiting Backbone.js View Rendering
- zimbatm 14y agoI'm not familiar with Backbone but isn't `model.toJSON()` unnecessarily removing useful data types (like Date) that aren't available in JSON ?
- papercrane 14y agoYou're probably thinking of `JSON.stringify()`. `model.toJSON()` just returns a clone of the models attributes object.
- zimbatm 14y agoSo `model.toJSON()` isn't supposed to return a JSON-compatible data structure ?
- papercrane 14y agoIt's supposed to return an object that is suitable for turning into JSON, but it won't convert any of items members. JSON.stringify relies on the toJSON functions of the members to serialize themselves.
- lopatin 14y agoWhy is using 'model.toJSON()' overkill?
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- wprater 14y agoI agree that putting all that logic and template vars into a template is confusing. Hard to create mocks of what the HTML should actually be structured like. Im using Jade so I can be terse and pre-compiling the templates. While in my Backbone application, I apply DOM-like rendering with Plates.js.
- pselbert 14y agoThere are numerous benefits to using a presenter, or at least a "renderContext" object. Most conversion, formatting, predicates, and lazy attributes won't come through with toJSON(). The performance penalty is negligible compared to the benefit of testable presenter methods, logic out of the view, etc. Performance isn't the only thing to consider.