Discus

Discus is a series of convenience and safety extensions on BackBone, along with some optional opinionated design paterns.

Features

• View parenting with garbage collection
• Automatic template rendering with template data helper methods
• State driven template selection
• Automatic child view attachment by selector
• Advanced ListView
  • Asyncronous rendering for responsiveness
  • Sparse view rendering for massive data sets
• Convenience methods
• Warnings on missed paterns, like unparented subviews or double removing views

Purpose

Discus is designed to be somewhere between the heavy handed framework of Marionette and the near unusable genericness of BackBone. Discus aims to bring a bit of structure needed for scaling pure BackBone apps in to massive applications. It focuses on DRYing out repeat paterns, garbage collection, developer convenience and developer safety.