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BackboneJS - Router Navigate
Description
To save the application as a URL, you need to use the navigate method to update the URL.
Syntax
router.navigate(fragment, options)
Parameters
fragment − It is the name of the parameter in which the url will be displayed after this parameter.
options − The options such as trigger and replace to call the route function and to update the URL.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Router 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> </head> <script type = "text/javascript"> //'RouteMenu' is a name of the view class var RouteMenu = Backbone.View.extend ({ el: '#routemenu', //'el' defines which element to be used as the view reference //defines a click event to be occur on link events: { 'click a' : 'onClick' }, //After clicking on a link, router calls 'navigate' to update URL onClick: function( e ) { //Uses the navigate() method save the application as URL router.navigate('/'); } }); var Router = Backbone.Router.extend ({ //The 'routes' maps URLs with parameters to functions on your router routes: { 'route/:id' : 'defaultRoute' }, }); //'routemenu' is an instance of the view class var routemenu = new RouteMenu(); //It start listening to the routes and manages the history for bookmarkable URL's Backbone. history.start(); </script> <body> <p>It refers to the view class 'RouteMenu' and creates the 3 links which changes the url when you click on the links</p> <section id = "routemenu"> <ul> <li> <a href = "#/route/1">route 1 </a> </li> <li> <a href = "#/route/2">route 2 </a> </li> <li> <a href = "#/route/3">route 3 </a> </li> </ul> </section> </body> </html>
Output
Let us carry out the following steps to see how the above code works −
Save the above code in the navigate.htm file.
Open this HTML file in a browser.
NOTE − The above functionality is related to the address bar. So, when you will open the above code in the browser, it will show the result as follows.
backbonejs_router.htm
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