creatable/creatable.backbone.coffee

Elegant HTML generation. No templating. Just Javascript.

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Add support for Backbone Views to Creatable's rendering pipeline.
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Extend Backbone.View with a default render function that relies on build() to produce an s-exp representing the view.
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Backbone.View = Backbone.View.extend(
  render: ->
    that = this
    el = $(Creatable.create(@build()))
    $(@el).empty().append(el).fadeIn()
    setTimeout (->
      that.trigger "render", el
    ), 0
    this

  build: ->
    null
)

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Extend Creatable to support Backbone Views.
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Creatable.types.push
  isOfType: (o) -> o instanceof Backbone.View
  build: (o) -> o.render().el