Automatically renders forms that include datepicker, Select2 and SlickGrid controls
backbone.edit started from a desire to move the validation logic that is built into backbone-forms down to the models. Along the way support for server side validation errors and wrappers for several javascript controls was added.
backbone.edit is based on the excellent backbone-forms library and uses marionette.js to manage the closing of editors as parent layouts are removed from the DOM.
- base - Utillity functions and classes used by the other modules
- form - Displays editable forms - similar to backbone-forms. A Backbone.Edit.editors.editor will be required for each supported data type.
- editors - Backbone-edit wrappers around edit controls. Supported editors include Select2, datepicker, mobiscroll.com datetime and the basic html form elements.
- slickgrid - Wrapper around SlickGrid. For data display the only dependency is the 'base' module. To support editing then the 'form' and 'editors' modules are also required.
You will need Git, Node, and NPM installed. For clarification, please view the jQuery readme, which requires a similar setup.
You will need to have the Grunt build system installed globally (-g) on your system:
npm install -g grunt-cli
To install Backbone-edit's development dependencies enter the directory and install:
npm install
After you make code changes, you'll want to compile the CoffeeScript to JS. You can either manually rebuild each time you make a change:
grunt dev
Or, you can run a script that automatically rebuilds whenever you save a source file:
./build/watch