Question

I’ve been learning backbone.js and put up some code together finally. Everything is on a fiddle here.

The problem precisely is, I think with the events. They aren’t triggering the view functions on click.

How to make it work? Am I missing any ‘gotchas’?

Answer 1

You need to define the container of the view by setting the el property, then it works as expected.

Backbone.View.extend({
    el: "body",
    events: {
        "click #add-contact": "addContact",
        "click #test": "alertMe"
    },

Updated Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/fAB28/1/