changelog.md

v1.0.0-rc6 view commit logs

• CompositeView
  • Corrected the timing of the "before:render" event / onBeforeRender callback, so that it will be called before serializing the data for the model / template

v1.0.0-rc5 view commit logs

• CollectionView / ItemView
  • Corrected the timing on the "show" event / onShow callback for itemView instances that are added after the CollectionView is in the DOM

v1.0.0-rc4 view commit logs

• EventBinder

  • BREAKING: Removed Marionette.addEventBinder function.

• EventAggregator

  • BREAKING: Removed Marionette.EventAggregator object. Use Backbone.Wreqr.EventAggregator instead

• CollectionView / CompositeView

  • Fixed several issues related to resetting the collection, and producing zombie "empty" views
  • Fixed a bug that caused multiple emptyView instances when resetting the collection
  • Forwarded events from child views are now called with triggerMethod, meaning they trigger the event and call the corresponding "onEventName" method

• Modules

  • Finalizers now run with the module as the this context

• Marionette.getOption

  • Fixed support for "falsey" values in an object's options

• Build process

  • Fixed build process to work on case-sensitive file systems (Linux, for example)

v1.0.0-rc3 view commit logs

• Updated Backbone v0.9.10

• Updated jQuery to v1.9.0

  • Fixed a few minor unit test issues w/ jQuery update

• Read the upgrade guide for upgrading from v1.0.0-rc2 to v1.0.0-rc3

v1.0.0-rc3 view commit logs

• IMPORTANT: Be sure to read the upgrade guide for upgrading from v1.0.0-rc2 to v1.0.0-rc3

• Backbone v0.9.9

  • BREAKING: Backbone v0.9.2 is no longer supported
  • Backbone v0.9.9 is now supported

• Marionette.Async

  • BREAKING: Marionette.Async is no longer supported

• Backbone.EventBinder / Marionette.EventBinder

  • BREAKING: Marionette.EventBinder / Backbone.EventBinder have been removed entirely.
  • Backbone.Events supercedes the older objects
  • Backbone.Wreqr.EventAggregator also supercedes Marionette.EventBinder

• EventBinder -> EventAggregator

  • BREAKING: Backbone.Werqr.EventAggregator largely replaces Backbone.EventBinder
  • BREAKING: bindTo has been replaced with listenTo
  • BREAKING: unbindAll has been replaced with stopLitening
  • BREAKING: unbindFrom has been removed and will not be replaced

• Marionette.addEventBinder

  • BREAKING: This function will mix in Backbone.Events to the target object if it does not exist
  • BREAKING: This function will alter the listenTo method of the target to accept a context parameter as the 4th parameter of the method

• All Views, Controller, etc

  • BREAKING: Backbone.EventBinder is no longer mixed in
  • BREAKING: See 'EventBinder -> EventAggregator' changes regarding method names to use for binding / unbinding events

• CollectionView

  • Added removeChildView to remove a specific view instance
  • Fixed event handler leak for child views that have been removed
  • Changed the implementation for triggering the "show" event / "onShow" method call, to avoid memory leaks
  • Fixed the index parameter for adding a model to the collection, and getting the view in to the right place

• All Views

  • BREAKING: The initialEvents method has been removed. Use the initialize method, the collectionEvents or modelEvents configuration instead.
  • Allow modelEvents and collectionEvents to be a function that returns a hash
  • Allow ui configuration to be a function that returns a hash
  • modelEvents and collectionEvents are now delegated / undelegated with Backbone.View's .delegateEvents and .undelegateEvents method calls
  • View triggers now include an args object with args.view, args.model and args.collection

• Modules

  • Added alternate syntax for specifying startWithParent option
  • Fixed a bug where a module would not be started without an explicit definition for that module (#388 & #400)

v1.0.0-rc2 view commit logs

• CollectionView / CompositeView

  • **BREAKING: ** Changed the item:added event to before:item:added and after:item:added
  • Fixed the onShow callbacks, so they can be used in the initialize method

• AMD build

  • Fixed the AMD build by adding Backbone.BabySitter to the AMD dependency list

• All Views

  • All views (include Marionette.View) now have a "dom:refresh" and onDomRefresh event / method triggered

v1.0.0-rc1 view commit logs

• Fixed IE < 9 support w/ calls to .apply when arguments was null or undefined

• Module

  • BREAKING: Renamed "initialize:before" event to "before:start", for consistency
  • BREAKING: Renamed "initialize:after" event to "start", for consistency
  • Triggers a "before:stop" event/method before the module is stopped
  • Triggers a "stop" event/method after the module has been stopped

• Marionette.View

  • BREAKING: The bindBackboneEntityTo method has been removed from Marionette.View and replaced with Marionette.bindEntityEvents function.

• Marionette.bindEntityEvents

  • This function has been extracted from Marionette.View, and will bind an events hash to the events from an entity (model or collection), using the supplied EventBinder object (or any object with a bindTo method)

• Marionette.EventBinder

  • The context of the callback method defaults to the object w/ the bindTo method

• CollectionView / CompositeView

  • The "item:added"/onItemAdded callback method are now fired after an item view has been rendered and added to it's parent collection view
  • The "itemview:" events - events that are forwarded from item views - can now have a custom prefix with the itemViewEventPrefix setting

• ItemView

  • Added a "dom:refresh" event/callback method that fires after a view has been rendered, placed in the DOM with a Marionette.Region, and is re-rendered

• All Views

  • The modelEvents and collectionEvents can now have a function configured as the value in the { "event:name": "value" } configuration hash
  • A view that uses bindTo for its own "close" event will have it's close handler called correctly
  • Returning false from the onBeforeClose method will prevent the view from being closed

v1.0.0-beta6 view commit logs

• CollectionView / CompositeView

  • BREAKING: The .children attribute, used to store child views, is no longer an object literal. It is now an instance of Backbone.ChildViewContainer from Backbone.BabySitter
  • Updated to use Backbone.BabySitter to store and manage child views

• Controller

  • Added a default close method to unbind all events on the controller instance and controller event binder
  • Trigger a "close"/onClose event/method when closing
  • Fixed initialize method so options parameter is always a valid object

• Modules

  • Fixed an issue with grand-child modules being defined with a non-existent direct parent, and starting the top level parent directly

v1.0.0-beta5 view commit logs

• Modules
  • Fixed the startWithParent option so that you only have to specify startWithParent: false once, no matter how many files the module definition is split in to

v1.0.0-beta4 view commit logs

• CollectionView / CompositeView

  • BREAKING: Changed when the itemViewOptions gets called, in order to simplify the buildItemView method and make it easier to override
  • BREAKING: The storeChild method now requires an instance of the item being rendered, as well as the view that was rendered for it

• CompositeView / templateHelpers

  • BREAKING: Fixed the CompositeView so that serializeData is no longer responsible for mixing in the templateHelpers

• Controller

  • Added a very basic Marionette.Controller object, and basic documentation for it

• Marionette.getOption

  • Added a convience method to get an object's options either from the object directly, or from it's this.options, with this.options taking precedence
  • Converted use of this.options to use Marionette.getOption through most of the code

• Marionette.createObject

  • Added a convience method to create an object that inherits from another, as a wrapper / shim around Object.create

v1.0.0-beta3 view commit logs

• Region
  • Fixed "show" method so that it includes the view instance being shown, again

v1.0.0-beta2 view commit logs

• templateHelpers

  • BREAKING: Changed when the templateHelpers is mixed in to the data for a view, so that it is no longer dependent on the serializeData implementation

• Region

  • BREAKING: Changed "view:show" event to "show"
  • BREAKING: Changed "view:closed" event to "close"
  • All region events and events that the triggers from a view are now triggered via Marionette.triggerMethod.

• Marionette.EventAggregator

  • BREAKING: The bindTo method no longer assumes you are binding to the EventAggregator instance. You must specify the object that is triggering the event: ea.bindto(ea, "event", callback, context)
  • Marionette.EventAggregator combines Backbone.Wreqr.EventAggregator with Backbone.EventBinder, allowing the event aggregator to act as it's own event binder

• CollectionView

  • Fixed bug where adding an item to a collection would not allow the CollectionView to propagate the itemView's events
  • Allow itemViewOptions to be specified in CollectionView constructor options

• Application

  • The events triggered from the Application object instance are now triggered with corresponding "on{EventName}" method calls

• Backbone.EventBinder

  • Updated to v0.1.0 of Backbone.EventBinder, allowing for jQuery/DOM events to be handled within the EventBinder instances / bindTo methods

• AMD Wrapper

  • The "core" AMD wrapper specifies Backbone.Wreqr and Backbone.EventBinder
  • The "standard" AMD wrapper does not specify Backbone.Wreqr / EventBinder, as these are built in

• Build / downloads

  • The standard and AMD versions of backbone.marionette.js and backbone.marionette.min.js include all dependencies (EventBinder, Wreqr)
  • The "core" versions of backbone.marionette.js and backbone.marionette.min.js do not include any dependencies (EventBinder, Wreqr)

v1.0.0-beta1 view commit logs

• Backbone.EventBinder

  • BREAKING: Marionette's EventBinder has been extracted to the Backbone.EventBinder repository and plugin. You must include this file in your app, available at https://github.com/marionettejs/backbone.eventbinder

• Backbone.Wreqr

  • BREAKING: Marionette's EventAggregator has been extracted to the Backbone.Wreqr repository and plugin. You must include this file in your app, available at https://github.com/marionettejs/backbone.wreqr

• All Views

  • BREAKING: beforeRender method is now onBeforeRender
  • BREAKING: beforeClose method is now onBeforeClose
  • BREAKING: The render method for all Marionette views is bound to the view instance
  • All view events are now triggered with triggerMethod, calling their corresponding method on the view if it exists
  • All views now have an isClosed attribute on them, which is set to true when calling the close() method and reset to false when calling the render() method
  • EventBinder is now attached to the views with the Marionette.addEventBinder method call

• CompositeView

  • BREAKING: CompositeView will only render a model in to it's template, instead of a model or collection. It will still render the collection as itemView instances.

• Modules

  • BREAKING: Split module definitions can now receive custom args per module definition, instead of sharing / replacing them across all definitions

• CollectionView / CompositeView

  • Cleaned up the getItemViewContainer code, and improved the error that is thrown when the specified container element is not found
  • Can attach existing view instance w/ existing DOM element as child of collection view / composite view, in parent's initialize function
  • Fixed a bug where an undefined this.options would prevent child views from being rendered, trying to find the index of the view

• Layout

  • Allow a Layout to be defined without regions, using Underscore v1.4.x

• View / ItemView / CompositeView

  • Removed the serializeData method and added directly to ItemView and CompositeView as needed

• Application

  • Application regions can now be specified as a jQuery selector string, a region type, or an object literal with a selector and type: {selector: "#foo", regionType: MyCustomRegion}
  • added .commands as instance of Backbone.Wreqr.Commands, to facilitate command execution
  • added .execute method for direct command execution
  • added .reqres as instance of Backbone.Wreqr.RequestResponse, to facilitate request/response execution
  • added .request method for direct requesting of a response

• Marionette.triggerMethod

  • Added Marionette.triggerMethod method to trigger an event and call the corresponding method. For example, view.triggetMethod("before:render") will trigger the "before:render" event and call the onBeforeRender method.

• Marionette.addEventBinder

  • Added Marionette.addEventBinder method to add all of the Backbone.Wreqr.EventBinder methods to a specified target object

• Misc

  • Added Marionette.extend as alias to Backbone's extend method for more consistent use
  • jQuery ($) support now works from global $ or window.jQuery
  • Updated to Underscore.js v1.4.1
  • Updated to jQuery v1.8.2

v0.10.2 view commit logs

• Callbacks

  • Fixed a bug that caused callbacks to fire multiple times after calling reset

• Layout

  • Fixed a bug that prevented the regions from being re-initialized correctly, when using render as a callback method for an event

v0.10.1 view commit logs

• Modules
  • Fixed a bug when defining modules in reverse order, that prevented startWithParent from working correctly

v0.10.0 view commit logs

• Modules

  • BREAKING: Module definition functions are executed immediately and only once, not every time you call start
  • BREAKING: Renamed startWithApp to startWithParent in module definitions
  • BREAKING: Sub-modules rely on the parent module to start them, by default, but can be started manually
  • BREAKING: Sub-modules default to starting with their parent module start
  • BREAKING: Specifying startWithParent: false for a sub-module will prevent the module from being started when the parent starts
  • BREAKING: Specifying startWithParent: false for a top-level module will prevent the module from being started when the parent Application starts
  • BREAKING: When starting a module, sub-modules will be started / initialized before parent modules (depth-first hierarchy traversal)
  • BREAKING: When stopping a module, sub-modules will be stopped / finalized before parent modules (depth-first hierarchy traversal)
  • Fixed: retrieving a module by name (var foo = MyApp.module("Foo");) will not change the module's definition or startWithParent setting

• CollectionView

  • Allow itemViewOptions to be a function, which recieves the item as an argument

• Callbacks

  • Added reset method to reset the list of callbacks and allow them to be run again, when needed

v0.9.13 view commit logs

• CollectionView

  • Fixed bug that prevented "collection:closed" event from being triggered
  • Allow different item view to be rendered for each item in collection by overriding getItemView method

• CompositeView

  • Allow different item view to be rendered for each item in collection by overriding getItemView method

• Layout

  • Regions are initialized before prototype constructor, or initialize function are called

• All Views

  • Adds declarative event binding for models and collections. See Marionette.View documentation for more information.

• Build and test

  • Removed all dependencies on Ruby, in favor of NodeJS and Grunt

v0.9.12 view commit logs

• Moved Marionette.Async to it's own repository
• De-linted source code
• Corrected throwing an "Exception" to throwing an "Error"

v0.9.11 view commit logs

• JamJS Support

  • Updated the package.json file with more detail and support for JamJS.

• Layout

  • Fixed a global variable leak

v0.9.10 view commit logs

• ItemView and Layout
  • BREAKING: Removed the default implementation of initialEvents, so that a collection "reset" event won't cause the ItemView or Layout to re-render
• Build Process
  • Changed from Anvil.js to Grunt.js for the build process

v0.9.9 view commit logs

• Regions
  • Added a reset method to regions, which closes the open view and deletes the region's cached el

v0.9.8 view commit logs

• Modules
  • Fixed a bug that ensures modules will start and stop the correct number of times, instead of always stopping immediately after they have been stopped once

v0.9.7 view commit logs

• Modules

  • Fixed a bug to ensure modules are only started once, no matter how many definitions the module is split in to

• View Templates

  • Better support for pre-compiled templates - can specify a function as the template setting for a view, and the function will be run as the template, directly.

v0.9.6 view commit logs

• All Marionette Views
  • Fixed bug that prevented bindTo function and other EventBinder functions from being available in initialize method of views

v0.9.5 view commit logs

• Layout
  • Fixed a typo / bug in default Region type used for layouts

v0.9.4 view commit logs

• BindTo -> EventBindings

  • BREAKING: Renamed Marionette.BindTo to Marionette.EventBindings and made it a constructor function instead of an object literal

• Modules

  • BREAKING: Changed the API of Module.create to be more clear and explicit about app parameter
  • BREAKING: Defer module definition until module is started
  • Modules now have addInitializer method to add initializers
  • Modules can be started (run the initializers) with start method
  • Modules are automatically started when Marionette.Application start method is called
  • App.start sends options to module initializers
  • Modules that are defined (or loaded from external source) afer app is started will auto-start by default
  • Can specify a module is not started with the app, to prevent the module from being started when app.start is called
  • Calling start on a module will start all of the sub-modules for that module

• CollectionView/CompositeView

  • Correctly handles non-existent collection and removing child item views that were added manually
  • Corrected showing empty view and closing empty view when resetting collection and adding items
  • Fixed bug to prevent showing the empty view more than once when rendering the collection view

• Application

  • Added a removeRegion method to close / remove regions, as a counter-function to the addRegions method

• Marionette.View (all views / base view)

  • Can specify a set of ui elements that are cached jQuery selectors

• Layout

  • An already closed layout can be re-rendered, and the regions will regenerate
  • Allow a custom region type to be specified for all regions, as well as per-region instance

v0.9.3 view commit logs

• CompositeView

  • Cleaned up the method to get / cache the itemViewContainer
  • Allow itemViewContainer to be a function that return a jQuery selector string

• View render methods all return this in the standard Marionette views (the async views still return a deferred object).

v0.9.2 view commit logs

• CompositeView

  • Added itemViewContainer to specify which element children / itemView instances should be appended to

• CollectionView

  • Now triggers "before:render" and "render" events

• Region

  • Returns a deferred/promise from the show method, with Marionette.Async

• Fixed bug in template cache for Marionette.Async

• Marionette can now be installed with Volo

v0.9.1 view commit logs

• CollectionView and CompositeView properly close their emptyView instance when an item is added to the view's collection
• CollectionView and CompositeView will show their emptyView after the last item has been removed from the collection

v0.9.0 view commit logs

• BREAKING Async Support Removed From Core Marionette

  • Marionette no longer supports asynchronous / deferred rendering in any view, by default
  • Async / deferred rendering are now provided via backbone.marionette.async.js add-on

• Split the single src/backbone.marionette.js file into multiple files for easier maintenance

• Marionette.Async:

  • Added Marionette.Async add-on which provides support for rendering and retrieving templates asynchronously

• Marionette.View:

  • BREAKING Renamed the getTemplateSelector method to getTemplate
  • Call unbindAll to unbind all bound events, later in the close process, so the close event can be listened to

• ItemView:

  • BREAKING The template attribute no longer allows you to specify a function that returns a jQuery selector. Override getTemplate to do this.
  • BREAKING The renderHtml method has been removed from the ItemView
  • BREAKING Async support removed

• CollectionView:

  • BREAKING Async support removed
  • Now supports optional emptyView attribute, to specify what view to render when no items exist in the collection
  • Fixed a memory leak for closed item views
  • ItemView is now guaranteed to have it's "onRender" and "onShow" methods called, when rendering the collection and when adding a new item to the collection / rendering the new item view
  • Calls an onItemAdded method when adding an item/item view, just prior to rendering the item view
  • Can now specify an itemViewOptions object literal on your collection view definition, and the data will be passed to each itemView instance as part of the itemView's options
  • The appendHtml method receives a third argument of the itemView's "index" for sorted collections

• CompositeView:

  • BREAKING When a CompositeView's collection is reset, only the collection will be re-rendered. It will no longe re-render the composite's template/model, just the collection.
  • BREAKING Async support removed
  • (see change list for CollectionView)

• Layout:

  • BREAKING Regions specified within a layout are now available immediately after creating a layout instance
  • BREAKING Re-rendering a layout will close all regions and reset them to the new DOM elements that were rendered
  • BREAKING Layouts no longer have a .vent event aggregator hanging off them
  • BREAKING Async support removed

• Region:

  • BREAKING Removed the ability to send a second parameter to a regions' "show" method
  • BREAKING Changed the implementation of Region to allow easier overriding of how the new view is added to the DOM
  • BREAKING Async support removed

• TemplateCache:

  • BREAKING Moved TemplateCache to object instances instead of single object literal
  • BREAKING Moved the loadTemplate and compileTemplate to TemplateCache.prototype
  • BREAKING TemplateCache.get no longer accepts a callback method. It always returns jQuery promise

• Renderer:

  • BREAKING Removed the renderHtml method
  • Rendering a pre-compiled template function is now much easier - just override the Renderer.render method.

• Modules:

  • BREAKING Modules must be defined on an instance of a Marionette.Application, and cannot be defined from another module directly
  • BREAKING Modules no longer allow you to return a custom module object from the module definition function
  • BREAKING Modules no longer allow you to add initializers to them
  • BREAKING Modules no longer have a .vent event aggregator hanging off them
  • Extracted Marionette.Module in to it's own constructor function to be used as modules, instead of Marionette.Application
  • Modules allow you to pass in any arbirary arguments, after the module definition function, and they will be supplied to the module definition function
  • The this argument in a module definition function is now the module itself

• Callbacks:

  • BREAKING Switched the order of parameters for the run method to args, context

• BindTo:

  • The unbinding of an event now considers the context parameter when unbinding, allowing multiple handers to be bound to the same event from the same object, and unbinding only one of them

v0.8.4 view commit logs

• Fixed: A call to .module will correctly pass the Application instance from which .module was called, as the second parameter of the module definition function

v0.8.3 view commit logs

• Module definitions can be split across multiple files and/or multiple calls to define the module

v0.8.2 view commit logs

• Views now have the ability to define triggers which will convert a DOM event in to a view.trigger event

v0.8.1 view commit logs

• Module definition functions will only be applied to the last module in the . chain

v0.8.0 view commit logs

• Added modules and sub-modules through the Application object

v0.7.6

• An itemView instance as part of a Collection View or Composite View, will have it's events bubbled up through the parent view, prepended with "itemview:" as the event name

v0.7.5

• The onBefore method of ItemView can now return a deferred object
• Code cleanup for rendering methods

v0.7.4

• Fixed issue with unbindAll in BindTo, that was skipping some items

v0.7.3

• The bindTo method on the EventAggregator now returns a binding configuration object
• Automatic mixing in of templateMethods as template / view helper methods, in views that use the serializeData function
• A friendlier error message will be thrown from an appRouter if a route is configured with a method that does not exist on the controller

v0.7.2

• Extracted compileTemplate method in TemplateCache for clarity and easier modification
• ItemView will wait until onRender has completed before triggering other rendered events
• Region now supports an onShow method, when defining a custom region
• Moved the default serializeData method to the base Marionette.View
• CompositeView now calls the serializeData method to get the model's data for the view
• BindTo changes:
  • The bindTo method returns a "binding" object so that it can be unbound easily
  • Now has an unbindFrom method that will unbind a binding object

v0.7.1

• ItemView now has a renderHtml method that can be overriden to render the item view's data
• Region now supports an initialize function when extending a region to your own object type
• CollectionView correctly defers until all children are rendered
• Underscore templates are cached as pre-compiled templates, instead of re-compiling them on every render
• Updating AMD support to also work with CommonJS / NodeJS
• Correctiong build to include header / license info for all output files
• Pass JSLint with no warnings (run w/ Anvil.js build process)
• Removed GZip release files, as they were broken anyways

v0.7.0

• BREAKING: The renderTemplate method has moved from the ItemView prototype on to the Renderer object
• BREAKING: The appendHtml method of the CollectionView now takes collectionView, itemView as the arguments, instead of el, html
• Added Marionette.View object, to contain a few basic parts of every Marionette view
• Added Marionette.Renderer object, to handle template rendering
• Views correctly trigger the "close" events before unbinding event subscribers
• Additional CollectionView changes:
  • Extracted getItemView method to retrieve the itemView type, either from this.itemView or this.options.itemView
  • Extracted buildItemView method to build each item's view
  • Renamed removeChildView to removeItemView to make the language consistent
  • Triggers "item:added" event after each item has been added
  • Triggers "item:removed" event after an item has been removed
• CompositeView changes:
  • No longer takes a modelView. Now directly renders the template specified
  • Defaults to a recurive structure, where itemView is the current composite view type
• A Region will trigger a show event from any view that it shows
• Added common "render" event to all the view types
• Updated to Backbone v0.9.2
• Updated to jQuery v1.7.2
• AMD / RequireJS compliant version is provided
• Now using Anvil.js for builds

v0.6.4

• CollectionView and CompositeView can render without a collection

v0.6.3

• ItemView changes
  • Calls a beforeRender and beforeClose method on the view, if it exists
  • Triggers a item:before:render event, just prior to rendering
  • Triggers a item:before:close and item:closed events, around the view's close method
• CollectionView changes
  • Calls a beforeRender and beforeClose method on the view, if it exists
  • Triggers a collection:before:render event before rendering
  • Triggers a collection:before:close and collection:closed event, surrounding closing of the view
• The CollectionView and CompositeView now close child views before closing itself

v0.6.2

• BREAKING: The CollectionView no longer has a reRender method. Call render instead
• BREAKING: The TemplateCache.get method now returns a plain string instead of a jQuery selector object
• Fixed a bug with closing and then re-using a Layout with defined regions
• Fixed a potential race condition for loading / caching templates where a template would be loaded multiple times instead of just once

v0.6.1

• Fixed the composite view so that it renders the collection correctly when the collection is "reset"
• Fixed the composite view so that it re-renders correctly
• Fixed various deferred usages to only return promises, instead of the full deferred object

v0.6.0

• BREAKING: Renamed LayoutManager to Layout

• BREAKING: Renamed RegionManager to Region

• BREAKING: Renamed TemplateManager to TemplateCache

• Layout

  • BREAKING: Layout.render no longer returns the view itself, now returns a jQuery deferred object
  • The .vent attribute is now available in the initializer method
  • Ensures that regions select the $el within the Layout's $el instead of globally on the page
  • Initialize the regions before the layout, allowing access to the regions in the onRender method of the layout
  • Close the Layout's regions before closing the layout itself

• CompositeView

  • BREAKING: CompositeView.render no longer returns the view itself, now returns a jQuery deffered object
  • Will only render the collection once. You can call renderCollection explicitly to re-render the entire collection
  • Will only render the model view once. You can call renderModel explicitly to re-render the model
  • Correctly close and dispose of the model view
  • Triggers various events during rendering of model view and collection view
  • Calls 'onRender' method of composite view, if it exists

• ItemView

  • BREAKING: ItemView.render no longer returns the view itself, now returns a jQuery deferred object
  • Optimization to only call .toJSON on either model or collection, not both
  • Trigger "item:rendered" method after rendering (in addition to calling onRender method of the view)

• CollectionView

  • BREAKING: CollectionView.render no longer returns the view itself, now returns a jQuery deferred object
  • Trigger "collection:rendered" method after rendering (in addition to calling onRender method)

• Large updates to the readme/documentation

• Heavy use of jQuery.Deferred() and jQuery.when/then to better support asynchronous templates and rendering

v0.5.2

• BREAKING: Renamed CompositeRegion to LayoutManager
• Aliased CompsiteRegion to LayoutManager for backwards compatibility
• Bug fix for correctly initializing LayoutManager with specified options in constructor

v0.5.1

• Controller methods fired from an AppRouter are now called with this set to the controller, instead of the router
• Fixed a bug in the CompositeView where the list wouldn't render when passing in a populated collection

v0.5.0

• BREAKING: Extraced CompositeView out of the collection view
• Added CompositeView for managing leaf-branch/composite model structures
• Added CompositeRegion for managing nested views and nested region managers
• Added attachView method to RegionManager to attach existing view without rendering / replacing
• Specify how to attach HTML to DOM in region manager's show method

v0.4.8

• Don't re-render an ItemView when the view's model "change" event is triggered

v0.4.7

• Allow RegionManager to be instantiated with an el specified in the options
• Change how RegionManagers are added to an Application instance, to reduce memory usage from extraneous types

v0.4.6

• AppRouter can have it's controller specified directly in the router definition or in the construction function call
• Extracted Marionette.EventAggregator out in to it's own explicit object

v0.4.5

• CollectionView closes existing child views before re-rendering itself, when "reset" event of collection is triggered
• CollectionView now has "initialEvents" method which configures it's initial events
• ItemView now has "initialEvents" method which configures it's initial events

v0.4.4

• CollectionView renders itself when the view's collection "reset" event is fired
• ItemView renders itself when the view's model "change" event is fired
• ItemView renders itself when the view's collection "reset" event is fired

v0.4.3

• Fixed bug with RegionManagers trying to select element before DOM is ready, to lazy-select the element on first use of show

v0.4.2

• BREAKING: Removed the setOptions method from the Callbacks object
• Refactored Callbacks object to use a jQuery Deferred instead of my own code
• Fixed template manager's clear so it properly clears a single template, when only one is specified
• Refactored the RegionManager code to support several new features
  • now support returning a jQuery deferred object from a view's render method
  • now have a close method that you can call to close the current view
  • now trigger a "view:show" and "view:close" event
  • correctly remove reference to previous views, allowing garbage collection of the view
  • now support the bindTo and unbindAll methods, for binding/unbinding region manager events

v0.4.1

• Minor fix to context of template manager callback, to fix issue w/ async template loading

v0.4.0

• BREAKING: Rewrote the template manager to be async-template loading friendly
• BREAKING: Dropping support for Backbone v0.5.3 and below
• Added Marionette.Callbacks to manage a collection of callbacks in an async-friendly way
• Guarantee the execution of app initializer functions, even if they are added after the app has been started.
• App triggers "start" event after initializers and initializer events
• Updated to Backbone v0.9.1

v0.3.1

• Make region managers initialize immediately when calling app.addRegions

v0.3.0

• BREAKING: view.el for ItemView and CollectionView is no longer a jQuery selector object. Use view.$el instead
• BREAKING: regionManger.el is no longer a jQuery selector object. Use regionManager.$el instead
• Updated to use Backbone v0.9.0
• Updated to use Underscore v1.3.1
• Removed default itemView from the CollectionView definition
• CollectionView now explicitly checks for an itemView defined on it, and throws an error if it's not found

v0.2.6

• Bind the context (this) of application initializer functions to the application object

v0.2.5

• Added AppRouter, to reduce boilerplate routers down to simple configuration
• CollectionView can be treated as a composite view, rendering an model and a collection of models
• Now works with either jQuery, Zepto, or enter.js
• ItemView will throw an error is no template is specified

v0.2.4

• Return this (the view itself) from ItemView and CollectionView render method
• Call onRender after the CollectionView has rendered itself

v0.2.3

• Fixed global variable leaks
• Removed declared, but unused variables

v0.2.2

• Fixed binding events in the collection view to use bindTo (#6)
• Updated specs for collection view
• Documentation fixes (#7)

v0.2.1

• Added TemplateManager to cache templates
• CollectionView binds to add/remove and updates rendering appropriately
• ItemView uses TemplateManager for template retrieval
• ItemView and CollectionView set this.el = $(this.el) in constructor

v0.2.0

• Added ItemView
• Added CollectionView
• Added BindTo
• Simplified the way extend is pulled from Backbone

v0.1.0

• Initial release
• Created documentation
• Generated annotated source code