https://github.com/hogart/skull

Skull sits on top of Backbone and protects your application's brains.
https://github.com/hogart/skull

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Skull sits on top of Backbone and protects your application's brains.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hogart/skull
• Owner: hogart
• Created: 2013-03-25T15:47:52.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-08-05T17:36:25.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-18T16:19:15.397Z (3 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: http://hogart.github.io/skull/docs/
• Size: 1.24 MB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 6
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Skull

Skull sits on top of Backbone and protects your application's brains.

It deals with several annoying things in Backbone-based development:

* **Nested views management and memory leaks** are no longer problem: nested views described in declarative way (much like events) and are created and destroyed automagically

* **Enhanced templating management** for Views, _.template as default engine, template caching even if engine doesn't support it (and vice versa for debugging purposes), and marking start and end of every *rendered* template in DOM

* **Global objects, like `application`** are no longer needed with Registry pattern implementation and DI

* **No more annoying duplication of URLs in models and collections** — just declare `resource` member in your model

* **Redefine global syncing or for particular model or collection** is no longer problem, override `Skull.Syncer`

* **«What is Application?»** problem solved with `Skull.Application` class

* **«It's nor a model, nor a collection, nor a view, not a router…»** Define your own class hierarchy, based on `Skull.Abstract` and `Skull.Observable`

And many more small improvements an even more to come.

## Installation

Skull supports npm and bower:

```

npm install backbone-skull

bower install backbone-skull

```

Skull can be used with both CommonJS (Browserify) and AMD (require.js) loaders, as well as plain old browser globals.

## Usage

Please refer to `example` directory.

## Development

Clone repo, perform `npm install` and start hacking. To run tests, do `npm test`, to update docs — `npm jsdoc`. Skull relies on jscs and eslint for code conventions and on mocha/chai for unit-tests.