backbone.marionette - npm Package Versions

• Update the UMD build to be inline with the 2.x branch UMD implementation.

• Update bundled build to use the latest version of babysitter and wreqr.

• Behaviors now have access to the views options and events during their initialize.

• Behaviors now calls stopListening on close.
• Behaviors now undelegate modelEvents and collectionEvents when the parent view calls undelegateEvents.

• Update Gruntfile.

• The default task (grunt) now runs tests.

• $ grunt dev watch for watching.

• $ grunt build runs the tests and compiles.

• Add better inline documentation for module implementation.

• Add better inline behavior documentation.

• Fixes

  • Behaviors now correctly lookup methods for modelEvents and collectionEvents.
  • The CollectionView now triggers close on its children in the correct order.

• Features

  • Add onRoute to the appRouter.

    Marionette.AppRouter.extend({
      onRoute: function(route, params) {
      }
    })
  

  • Region.show now takes an option to prevent closing the previous view in the region. By default a region will automatically close the previous view, however you can prevent this behavior by passing {preventDestroy: true} in the options parameter.

  myRegion.show(view2, { preventDestroy: true })
  

  • Add a getRegion method to Layout. This is in line with the eventual goal of not attaching regions to the root layout object.

  • Behavior instances now extend from Backbone.Events, allowing you to use .listenTo and .on.

  • Allow Behaviors to have a functional hash lookup.

    Marionette.ItemView.extend({
      behaviors: function() {
        // “this” will refer to the view instance
        return : {
          BehaviorA: {}
        }
      }
    })
  

  • RegionManagers now calls stopListening on a regions on removal.

• Refactors

  • Abstract underscore collection method mixin into a generic helper.
  • Use built in marionette extend for behaviors.

• Tests

  • Add a whitespace linter to the text coverage. Trailing whitespace now causes travis.ci to fail.
  • Add test coverage for bindEntitiyEvents and unbindEntityEvents.
  • Test public API for the regionManager.
  • Improve view trigger tests for better control when testing.

General

• Update bower dependencies to take advantage of the fact that marionette repos follow semver.

Fixes

• Behaviors events no longer collide with each other.
• Revert stopListening call on stop for modules. While this was a "fix", the docs were quite vague leading to breaking changes for many people.
• startWithParent is now respected when using a moduleClass property.

Behaviors

• Adds the ability to use @ui interpolation within the events hash on a behavior.

Fixes

• Corrects broken view $el proxy in behaviors.

• Binds behavior events to the behavior instance, as compared to the view.

• Enables the use of string based behavior event methods.