Displaying Content from a Model
Learn how to declare models in Marionette js and how to get data to display from models in our application.
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Now that we’ve covered displaying static content, let’s move on to displaying content containing data from a model. As you may know, one of Backbone’s selling points is the possibility of structuring JavaScript applications with a model-view-controller (MVC) pattern. In this pattern, we use so-called models to interact with our data, passing them onto views for rendering the information they contain.
So, let’s declare a model within our JavaScript block above our view declaration:
We simply declared a model named Contact and attached it to our ContactManager app here. As we can see, this model extends Backbone’s model definition and inherits various methods from it. When we extend ...