backbone.js - handling model relationships in a RESTful way

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Matthew picture Matthew · Aug 26, 2011 · Viewed 9.4k times · Source

I'm using backbone.js

For example, let's suppose we have a "products" model and a "categories" model which have a many-to-many relationship. In one of my views, say I need to retrieve a list of all categories and know whether or not each one is related to the current product model.

Do I set up a "category" collection and have it be a property of my model and somehow give it access to the id of the model so that when it is fetched, it only gets the categories that are related? And then I could fetch all categories and cross examine them to see which ones are related while still having the ones which are not?

I have no idea what the best way to do this would be. I'm used to using an ORM which makes it easy on the server-side.

Answer

Sam Dolan picture Sam Dolan · Aug 26, 2011

Check out backbone-relational.

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