Forked Ember Inspector, for Backbone Views instead.
Backbone Inspector is a Google Chrome Inspector extension for Backbone developers. It displays a sidebar panel in the Inspector which provides information about the Backbone view backing the currently selected element in the DOM. It also assigns the view object to a global variable _V which can then be used within the console for further inspecting.
- Backbone doesn't keep track of views the same way Ember does, so for now I've just hacked something on top of Backbone just as a proof on concept.
- Put somewhere:
window.BackboneViews = {}; - Inside
Backbone.View, add the line:window.BackboneViews[this.cid] = this; - Inside
_ensureElement, add the line:attrs['data-bb-view'] = this.cid; - This gives each view element a
data-bb-viewattribute matching its internalcid, and keeps track of themwindow.BackboneViews. - There's probably a better way to do this, just hacking about to get something awesome.
- In Google Chrome, go to chrome://flags/ and enable Experimental Extension APIs. Relaunch your browser.
- Open Tools-->Extensions (ensure Development mode is checked) and click on "Load unpacked extension..." to install the extension. You will need to reload Chrome once the extension is installed.
- Customizable property watchlist
- Configurable global variable (change default _V to something else)
- Display clickable parentView and childViews
- Display the first ancestor backed by an Ember view if the selected element does not have one.
- When displaying an ancestor, the attribute "distance" shows the number of DOM levels it is away from the selected element.