Backbone View Inheritance

Question

I am trying to write a Backbone view for an object browser which is designed to be implemented in several places with different object types and slightly different operation

Answer 1

Inherit from Backbone.View doesn't work, or is quite complex.

You should create a common object, which every of your view will inherit from, ie :

var ViewInterface = {
  events        : { /* ... */ },
  initialize    : function (options) { /* ... */ },
  otherFunction : function (options) { /* ... */ },
}

each of your view would extend from this object :

var BrowserView = Backbone.View.extend(_.extend(ViewInterface, {
  anotherFunction : function (options) { /* ... */ },
})

var AnotherView = Backbone.View.extend(_.extend(ViewInterface, {
  yetAnotherFunction : function (options) { /* ... */ },
})