backbeat

Easy backbone handlebars integration with dynamic view creation

Overview

This tool extends jquery, backbone jqueryUI and handlebars.js, and adds the ability to create dynamic views that are attached to jqueryUI objects, even if they are created on the fly using handlebars template. This is achieved by using a two step mechanism

1. The HTML is added to the page using a handlebars.js. During this process a list of view schemas are generatedand.
2. After the handlebars.js generated HTML is loaded, the list of schemas is processed and the views are instantiated, and made operational.

Mechanism

"HandlebarsView" is a object which allows registering objects as helpers.

This is done with

HandlebarsView.registerView('ViewName', View);

The view must implement a prototype function that generated the HTML as:

View.prototype.createView = function (context, options, attributes) {

    var elName = attributes['el'];
    var value = attributes['value'] || "";

    return new Handlebars.SafeString(
            "MY HTML GOES HERE!!"
        );
}

License

Mervin is made available under both the GPL v2 license and a BSD (3-point) style license. You can select which one you wish to use the DataTables code under.

Copyright (c) 2008-2012, Daniel Flam All rights reserved.

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