Sorry this is a noob question but if I only need some initial data when the application first loads is a collection always needed or can the model fetch the data and pass it directly to the view?
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Sorry this is a noob question but if I only need some initial data when the application first loads is a collection always needed or can the model fetch the data and pass it directly to the view?
Nothing in backbone is really “required”. It’s a very thin, more-than-one-way-to-do-it framework. Jeremy recommends data that can be bootstrapped in the initial page load be handled that way, so your HTML could include you initial data as JSON in a
<script>tag. You can pass that JSON to a Backbone.Collection (if it’s a list of similar records) or a new Backbone.Model (if it’s a single domain object). You can also just use a model and callmodel.fetchto get your initial data. Model vs. Collection is more about single domain object with name/value pairs vs list of many objects where iterating, sorting, filtering are common.