Backbone JS Pagination

Question

I have been trying out backbone JS with rails and really like the way it organises the frontend. I have implemented a pagination solution similar to the one here https://gist.gi

Answer 1

If your objective is to query & display items when a page is requested, you could do something like (pseudocode):

pages = {}


// when page N is needed
function fetch_page(n) {
 if (!pages[n]) {
    pages[n] = new ItemsCollection({page: n})
    pages[n].fetch();
 }     
}

So you keep a collection for each page.

If you also need a collection of all the items fetched so far, just keep one - and add fetched items to it every time you get them from the server.