davidgtonge / backbone-1

Sample project for upcoming BackboneJS book

Backstop Media - Backbone.js

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API

Models

app.Board

A board holds all of the information pertinent to the kanban. app.board is defined during the app's initialization and should be used for adding and removing user repos and preferences.

app.User

A user model that can be mapped to a GitHub user. Each user also has a repos collection property.

var backstopmedia = new app.User({login: 'backstopmedia'});

// Fetch public information for this user.
backstopmedia.fetch({
  remote: true, // fetch from GitHub, not localStorage
  success: function () {
    console.log(backstopmedia.attributes);
  }
});

// Fetch all of the repos for this user.
backstopmedia.repos.fetch({
  remote: true,
  success: function (repos) {
    console.log(repos.pluck('name'));
  }
});

app.Repo

A repo model that can be mapped to a GitHub repo. Each repo also has an issues collection property.

var backbone = new app.Repo({
  name: 'backbone',
  owner: {login: 'backstopmedia'}
});

// Fetch public information for this repo.
backbone.fetch({
  remote: true,
  success: function () {
    console.log(backbone.attributes);
  }
});

// Fetch all of the issues for this repo.
backbone.issues.fetch({
  remote: true,
  success: function (issues) {
    console.log(issues.pluck('title'));
  }
});

app.Issue

An issue model that can be mapped to a GitHub issue. These should be fetched from a repo model rather than instatiated on their own.