Associations allows Backbone applications to model 1:1 & 1:N associations between application models and collections. More importantly, applications can listen to any kind of change (change, add, remove, reset, destroy) in this hierarchy using standard Backbone events and respond to them. (views can re-render for example). The implementation strives to be tiny (3.6KB), easy-to-understand, light-weight and fast.

Web applications leveraging the client-side-MVC architectural style will benefit by using backbone-associations to define rich application structure.

It was originally born out of a need to provide a simpler and speedier implementation of Backbone-relational.

Production version - 0.6.2     - 3.6kb packed and gzipped [ Source Map ]

Development version - 0.6.2 - Annotated source code, Test suite

Edge version                         - Use at your risk

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Backbone-associations v0.6.2 works with Backbone v1.0.0+ & Underscore v1.4.4+.

Web page :

<script type="text/javascript" src="./js/underscore.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="./js/backbone.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="./js/backbone-associations.js"></script>
                            

Alternatively, cdnjs and jsdelivr has also hosted our library.

AMD :

See this recipe

npm :

npm install backbone-associations
                            

bower :

bower install backbone-associations
                            

jam :

jam install backbone-associations
                            

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1. Learn how to specify and navigate association hierarchies.
2. Learn how to listen to changes in the association hierarchies.
3. Go through a comprehensive tutorial.
4. See real-world recipes contributed by users.