Skull

Skull sits on top of Backbone and protects your application's brains.

It deals with several annoying things in Backbone-based development:

• Nested views management and memory leaks are no longer problem: nested views described in declarative way (much like events) and are created and destroyed automagically
• Enhanced templating management for Views, _.template as default engine, template caching even if engine doesn't support it (and vice versa for debugging purposes), and marking start and end of every rendered template in DOM
• Global objects, like application are no longer needed with Registry pattern implementation and DI
• No more annoying duplication of URLs in models and collections — just declare resource member in your model
• Redefine global syncing or for particular model or collection is no longer problem, override Skull.Syncer
• «What is Application?» problem solved with Skull.Application class
• «It's nor a model, nor a collection, nor a view, not a router…» Define your own class hierarchy, based on Skull.Abstract and Skull.Observable

And many more small improvements an even more to come.

Installation

Skull supports npm and bower:

npm install backbone-skull
bower install backbone-skull

Skull can be used with both CommonJS (Browserify) and AMD (require.js) loaders, as well as plain old browser globals.

Usage

Please refer to example directory.

Development

Clone repo, perform npm install and start hacking. To run tests, do npm test, to update docs — npm jsdoc. Skull relies on jscs and eslint for code conventions and on mocha/chai for unit-tests.