The Backbone.JS History() is a global router. It serves various purposes including,
There is only one method to manipulate, modify or operate the History in Backbone.JS.
Backbone.js History.Start method:
The Backbone.js History.Start method is used to start the monitoring of the hashchange events, and dispatching routes after all the Routers have been created, and all the routes have been set.
Syntax:
Backbone.history.start (options)
Parameters:
options: This parameter is used to specify the other parameters like pushState and hashChange.
Example:
<title>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/libs/underscore.js/1.8.2/underscore-min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/backbone.js/1.1.2/backbone-min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var routeList = Backbone.View.extend({
el: '#routelist',
events: {
'click a' : 'onClick'
},
onClick: function( e ) {
router.navigate('https://www.w3schools.blog/');
} });
var X = Backbone.Router.extend({
routes: {
'route/:id' : 'defaultRoute'
}, });
var routelist = new routeList();
Backbone.history.start();
</script>
<section id="routelist">
<ul>
<li> <a href="#/route1">Route 1 </a> </li>
<li> <a href="#/route2">Route 2 </a> </li>
<li> <a href="#/route3">Route 3 </a> </li>
<li> <a href="#/route4">Route 4 </a> </li>
<li> <a href="#/route5">Route 5 </a> </li>
</ul>
</section>
<title>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/libs/underscore.js/1.8.2/underscore-min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/backbone.js/1.1.2/backbone-min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var routeList = Backbone.View.extend({
el: '#routelist',
events: {
'click a' : 'onClick'
},
onClick: function( e ) {
router.navigate('https://www.w3schools.blog/');
} });
var X = Backbone.Router.extend({
routes: {
'route/:id' : 'defaultRoute'
}, });
var routelist = new routeList();
Backbone.history.start();
</script>
<section id="routelist">
<ul>
<li> <a href="#/route1">Route 1 </a> </li>
<li> <a href="#/route2">Route 2 </a> </li>
<li> <a href="#/route3">Route 3 </a> </li>
<li> <a href="#/route4">Route 4 </a> </li>
<li> <a href="#/route5">Route 5 </a> </li>
</ul>
</section>
Example
Output:
● Route 1
● Route 2
● Route 3
● Route 4
● Route 5
● Route 1
● Route 2
● Route 3
● Route 4
● Route 5
● Route 1 ● Route 2 ● Route 3 ● Route 4 ● Route 5