Question

I know we can create our own events in Backbone.js like

object.trigger(‘myEvent’);

I also know there are some default events like the change or change:<attributename>

now i’m wondering, is there a list somewhere of these default events?
i am looking for a specific event that triggers when someone navigates away from a view,
so either in the removing of the view, or perhaps when a route is changed,
I just hope i don’t have to hack in my own event and it can’t hurt to see a full list of these events for further reference.

Answer 1

update seems like the list did exist already, as benoit describes in the comment above,
it can be found here… http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#FAQ-events

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so it seems such a list does not exist, well, i took it upon me to go through the annotated source and present the list here for everyone who might ever need it.

i do also make this a community wiki post, so i hope it will be updated by any of you who feel the need to. whether a new Backbone version comes with extra events or i’ve got something wrong, feel free to edit.

here goes the list of events triggered by backbone itself:

• change:<attributename>

  fired after using model.set({<attributename>, 'value'});
  to indicate the attribute was changed.

• change

  fired after using model.set({<attributename>, 'value'});
  to indicate the model was changed. this fire’s on any attribute you change.

• destroy

  fires after you destroy a model, model.destroy({options});

• error

  fires after a model is validated and 1 of the validations fails,
  if however a specific error callback function is passed in, that one will
  be executed instead of the error event.

  also fires when you do NOT give an error callback to the following model methods:

  model.fetch();
  model.save();
  model.destroy();
  

• reset

  fired when a collection is sorted through the collection.sort({options}); method
  also fired when specifically asking to reset a collection through collection.reset(models, {options});

• add

  fired when a model is added to a collection collection.add(models, {options});

• remove

  fired when a model is removed from a collection… collection.remove(models, {options});