/react.backbone

Plugin for React to make Backbone migration easier

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react.backbone

Plugin for React to make Backbone migration easier. Initialize your view with a Backbone.Model; when this model changes, #render will be called.

var UserView = React.createBackboneClass({
    changeOptions: "change:name", // DEFAULT is "change",
    render: function() {
        return (
          <div>
              <h1>{this.getModel().get("name")}</h1>
          </div>
        );
    }
});

var user = new Backbone.Model();
var userView = UserView({model: user});

Installation

Either download react.backbone.js or install the react.backbone package on Bower:

bower install --save react.backbone

You can either include react.backbone in a <script> tag (after you've included Backbone and React) or through RequireJS/AMD:

define(['backbone', 'react', 'react.backbone'], function(Backbone, React) {
    var UserView = React.createBackboneClass({
        // ...
    });
});