Backbone routers are used for routing your applications URLs when using hash tags(#). In the traditional MVC sense, they don’t necessarily fit the semantics and if you have read “What is a view?” it will elaborate on this point. Though a Backbone “router” is still very useful for any application/feature that needs URL routing/HISTORY capabilities.

Defined routers should always contain at least one route and a function to map the particular route to.

Routes interpret anything after “#” tag in the URL. All links in your application should target “#/action” or “#action”. (APPENDING a forward slash after the HASHTAG looks a bit nicer, e.g. HTTP://wisdomjobs.com/#/user/help).

<script>
var AppRouter = Backbone.Router.extend({
routes: {
"*actions": "defaultRoute" // matches http://wisdomjobs.com/#anything-here
}
});
// Initiate the router
var app_router = new AppRouter;
app_router.on('route:defaultRoute', function(actions) {
alert(actions);
})
// Start Backbone history a necessary step for bookmarkable URL's
Backbone.history.start();
</script>

Backbone routers are used for routing your applications URLs when using hash tags(#). In the traditional MVC sense, they don’t necessarily fit the semantics and if you have read “What is a view?” it will elaborate on this point. Though a Backbone “router” is still very useful for any application/feature that needs URL routing/history capabilities.

Defined routers should always contain at least one route and a function to map the particular route to.

Routes interpret anything after “#” tag in the URL. All links in your application should target “#/action” or “#action”. (Appending a forward slash after the hashtag looks a bit nicer, e.g. http://wisdomjobs.com/#/user/help).

<script>
var AppRouter = Backbone.Router.extend({
routes: {
"*actions": "defaultRoute" // matches http://wisdomjobs.com/#anything-here
}
});
// Initiate the router
var app_router = new AppRouter;
app_router.on('route:defaultRoute', function(actions) {
alert(actions);
})
// Start Backbone history a necessary step for bookmarkable URL's
Backbone.history.start();
</script>