Can I have a view without a model?
I just want to render some data with the backbone view that I’m familiar with. The data doesn’t map to a REST url or some model.
Can I do that or should I just make a model anyway?
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Can I have a view without a model?
I just want to render some data with the backbone view that I’m familiar with. The data doesn’t map to a REST url or some model.
Can I do that or should I just make a model anyway?
You don’t always need a model.
Models and views don’t have to be 1:1. In fact, they probably rarely are in practice. Some views might render data for several different models. Others might not, and instead might listen for DOM events, or render data from a third-party source, or any number of other things that don’t require a model.