Thorax

Thorax was especially developed for building large scale applications.

It can handle lots of code and business logic, providing a basic frame on which complex Web-based applications can be developed on.

Features:

• Easy layouts
• Context control
• Collection rendering
• Event support and enhancements
• Data binding
• Easy form handling
• Views controls
• jQuery support
• Zepto.js support

What is new in this release:

• Fixed IE version of CollectionView._replaceHTML.
• Added view({el}) lookup option.
• Removed data-submit-wait attr from view el when resetting submit state.

What is new in version 2.3.2:

• Fixed:
• IE11 - nested views are not preserved in DOM when re-rendered.

What is new in version 2.2.0:

• Investigate Backbone 1.1 impact.
• Docs on helpers incomplete.

What is new in version 2.1.5:

• Return event handler value from wrappers.

What is new in version 2.1.1:

• Handle destroyed helper view insert explicitly.

What is new in version 2.1.0:

• Removed dependencies from bower.json.

What is new in version 1.2.3 / 2.0.0rc1:

• Numerous performance and bug fixes
• Thorax now requires Backbone 0.9.9 or later
• The "auto unbind" feature of on(targetObject, eventName) has been removed, implemented by Backbone as listenTo
• Use of Thorax.Router is deprecated and no longer documented
• Removed ViewController class
• Views can now specify a helpers hash to call templates with
• Removed Thorax.Util.getValue
• renderTemplate second context argument now overrides context passed to template instead of adding to it
• ready event now propagates to children
• Added view.appendTo method
• Added bindDataObject, unbindDataObject methods

Requirements:

• Node.js 0.8 or higher