Question

I’m new in backbone 0.9.1.
I found when I change hash and I can not trigger hash change in my demo.
My URL is http://[…%5D/backbone/#help. I think I should receive a alert message “help”, but I’m not.

$(function() {
    var App = {
        Controllers:{},
        initialize: function(){
            new App.Controllers.Routes();
            var h = new Backbone.History();
            h.start({root: '/backbone/'});
        }
    };

    App.Controllers.Routes = Backbone.Router.extend({
        routes: {
            "help":                 "help",
            "search/:query":        "search",
        },

        help: function() {
            alert("help");
        },

        search: function(query) {
            alert("search");
        }
    });

    App.initialize();
});

Is there some misunderstanding or misuse?

Answer 1

You don’t need to instantiate a History object yourself. Also, if you’re not using pushstate, you don’t need to specify the root in the start options.

So, your initialize method should look like this:

        initialize: function(){
            new App.Controllers.Routes();
            Backbone.history.start();
        }