How to create Backbone Collection from a JSON API call that returns root parameters as well as array

Question

Backbone.js noob here.

I want to create a collection, from a JSON API external to my application. Specifically, the api from Stackoverflow. I know I should set the url

Answer 1

If this is the only collection in your app to work with such api, all you have to do is to override parse method for it:

App.Collections.Users = Backbone.Collection.extend({
    // ...
    parse: function(resp, xhr) {
        return resp.users
    }
})

If you also have to save your models, maybe you will need to override Backbone.sync. Don't hesitate to read backbone's source: it's thoroughly annotated and easy to follow.