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BackboneJS - History
BackboneJS - History
It keeps a track of the history, matches the appropriate route, fires callbacks to handle events and enables the routing in the apppcation.
start
This is the only method which can be used to manipulate the BackboneJS-History. It starts pstening to routes and manages the history for bookmarkable URL s.
Syntax
Backbone.history.start(options)
Parameters
options − The options include the parameters such as pushState and hashChange used with history.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>History Example</title> <script src = "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.3.min.js" type = "text/javascript"></script> <script src = "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/pbs/underscore.js/1.8.2/underscore-min.js" type = "text/javascript"></script> <script src = "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/pbs/backbone.js/1.1.2/backbone-min.js" type = "text/javascript"></script> </head> <script type = "text/javascript"> // Router is a name of the router class var Router = Backbone.Router.extend ({ //The routes maps URLs with parameters to functions on your router routes: { "myroute" : "myFunc" }, // The function myFunc defines the pnks for the route on the browser myFunc: function (myroute) { document.write(myroute); } }); // router is an instance of the Router var router = new Router(); //Start pstening to the routes and manages the history for bookmarkable URL s Backbone.history.start(); </script> <body> <a href = "#route1">Route1 </a> <a href = "#route2">Route2 </a> <a href = "#route3">Route3 </a> </body> </html>
Output
Let us carry out the following steps to see how the above code works −
Save the above code in the start.htm file.
Open this HTML file in a browser.
NOTE − The above functionapty is related to the address bar. So, when you open the above code in the browser, it will show the result as follows.
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