Question

• My first approach was to have each View initialize (new) its own Model, but as the project grows it is getting difficult to maintain as more views get added.

• Another way could be to have the App level View do the job.

Since Backbone does not provide a Controller class. What is the best practice to connect views and models in a medium size project in Backbone?

I know this is yet another Backbone Controller question from a MVC newbie! And that Backbone is not strict MVC. I only found some answers to this question in SO that were outdated and mixed Router and Controller concepts.

Answer 1

Just connect them when you create your view by specifying the model in the configuration object you pass to the view constructor:

var MyModel = Backbone.Model.extend();
var myModel = new MyModel();
var MyView = Backbone.View.extend();
var myView = new MyView({model: myModel});