Question

How do I set up a Backbone router that can handle URLs such as:

example.com/#!/story-1/?a=1&b=2

or preferably with sub-page URL support:

example.com/#!/chapter-1/story-1/?a=1&b=2

I basically want a simple way to define pages with an associated query string.

Is this supported by default or should I make use of this or other addition?
https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/pull/668

The end result should be something like:

1. Requested resource:
   example.com/#!/chapter-1/story-1/?a=1&b=2

2. Parse and see if it matches page in pages object:
   pages : {
   chapter-1_story-1 : {
   template : #template1
   }
   }

3. Load page template and page controllers with query string:
   PageController.load(template, params)

Answer 1

From the docs:

For example, a route of "search/:query/p:page" will match a fragment of 
#search/obama/p2, passing "obama" and "2" to the action. A route of 
"file/*path" will match #file/nested/folder/file.txt, passing 
"nested/folder/file.txt" to the action.

So therefore you can use variables like this:

 routes:{
   'search/:query/:page': 'handlePages'
 }

or paths like this:

 routes:{
   'search/*path': 'handlePages'
 }

I am not aware of any query string handling however.