multiple matching routes

Question

I\'ve got a backbone.js application that defines two controllers, and the controllers both define route patterns which match the location.hash. I\'m having trouble getting both

Answer 1

I have a very similar issue. At present, backbone stops after the first matching route. I have a dirty workaround where I am overriding the loadUrl method of Backbone History. Here I am iterating through all of the registered routes and triggering callback for all of the matching routes .

_.extend(Backbone.History.prototype, {
  loadUrl : function() {
    var fragment = this.fragment = this.getFragment();
    var matched = false;
    _.each(this.handlers, function(handler) {
      if (handler.route.test(fragment)) {
        handler.callback(fragment);
        matched = true;
      }
    });
    return matched;
  }
})

Philosophically, I am fine with having single controller per page. However, in a component based view framework, it will be nice to have multiple views per route rendering different parts of a view state.

Comments are welcome.