Question

I generally access my Parse app by going to www.mysite.com.

However, I want to be able to do something like www.mysite.com/code or www.mysite.com?page=code, and for this to show a specific view within the app, without having to click through. In other words, I want to detect that a GET variable is present, and use it to determine which view to show.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

You can use Backbone’s Router. There’s an example in the Anypic.org source code you can use.

var AppRouter = Backbone.Router.extend({
routes: {
  "pic/:object_id": "getPic",
  "*actions": "defaultRoute"
},

getPic: function(object_id) {
  App.showLandingPage();

  var query = new Parse.Query(Photo);
  query.include("user");
  query.get(object_id, {
    success: function(photo) {
      App.landingPageView.showPhoto(photo);
    },
    error: function(object, error) {
      console.error(error);
      // The object was not retrieved successfully.
      // error is a Parse.Error with an error code and description.
      App.landingPageView.showError();
    }
  });
},

defaultRoute: function(actions) {
  App.showHomePage();
}

});

In this example, navigating to https://anypic.org/pic/XXXXX will call getPic and pass along the value of XXXXX to the getPic function.