Backbone.Rel: Backbone lightweight model relationship manager

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48 pointsmasylum4 comments

This looks neat! But obvious question, how does this compare to the Backbone-relational library? One useful feature in Backbone-relational is the includeInJSON option, which can be used to either include/ignore or select a single attribute from the related model to be included in the toJSON output of the parent model. Would you have to manually do that here?

That's what I was going to ask.

I am by no means an expert, but syntactically, I prefer how backbone-relational does things so that it looks and feels more like working with native Backbone objects, but I honestly don't know what's different about this otherwise.

Awesome. Does this simplify the whole retrieval and setting of relationship as they are loaded via the standard fetch mechanism?

A real pain point for us at with Backbone is transversing these relationships in JS. We end up doing redundant renders as related models finally come into memory.

It's a simple abstraction around filtering objects in a collection by an id. Your collection must be already fetched.

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