I have pre-rendered HTML fragments in my filesystem. Is it possible to load HTML fragments in backbone.js? I'm looking for something similar to ng-include of Angular.js
for example, in my file system (frag.html)
<h1>I'm a fragment</h1>
Should be injected to the template in a given placeholder location
<div id="ph">
<!-- INJECTED -->
<h1>I'm a fragment</h1>
</div>
Suppose, we have this placeholder:
<div id="ph"></div>
and this HTML in frag.html file:
<div>
<h1>I am</h1>
<span>an HTML fragment</span>
</div>
Let us define our custom PrerenderedView
with a special render
method with the jQuery function load
inside:
window.PrerenderedView = Backbone.View.extend({
render: function() {
this.$el.load(this.options.ajax_template_path, _.bind(this.onRender, this));
return this;
},
onRender: function() {
// do some stuff here, for example
var h1 = this.$('h1');
var text = this.model.get('some_value');
setTimeout(function() {
h1.text(text);
}, 2000);
}
});
At the moment of instantiation of the PrerenderedView
we should pass an option ajax_template_path
(which is 'frag.html' in our case).
$(function() {
new window.PrerenderedView({
el: $('#ph'),
model: new Backbone.Model({some_value: 'It was'}),
ajax_template_path: 'frag.html'
}).render();
});
And, of course, we do not forget about Same Origin Policy if we are going to work without a server. For example, we can start chrome with the flag '--allow-file-access-from-files'.