Question

I am new to backbone js and require js.

I use requirejS to organize my backbone code into modules. I don’t know if this has any importance to what I want though. I want to have a central model where all my views will have access to. They should be able to get and set values. I don’t want to use it as each view model though. I need to keep in memory search options, user status (logged in/out) etc.

Any ideas?

EDIT

Maybe the answer is here?

Share resources across different amd modules

Answer 1

With requirejs, I would create a module that defines a singleton model, let’s say app/settings.js

define(['backbone'], function (Backbone) {
    var Settings = Backbone.Model.extend({
    });

    return new Settings();
});

and pull it in my other modules, for example

define(['backbone', 'app/settings'], function (Backbone, settings) {
    settings.set("pref", "my pref");
});

Subsequent calls to app/settings.js will return the same object.