Binding collections to views in Backbone.js

Question

I am new to backbone and I am stuck with this problem where I need to bind a Collection to a view. Is there a way to do this in Backbone or do I have to iterate through my Collection and then bind individuals models to views? All the examples I found online go through these lines of iterating through the collection (like http://liquidmedia.ca/blog/2011/02/backbone-js-part-3/ ).

If this is the way to do it in Backbone, then my other question is whether there is another framework that does a better job for binding to Collections.

Thanks

Answer 1

All model events are delegated to the collection as well. So instead of binding to each models change event you could just bind to the collections change event. Whenever a model changes the collection triggers the event as well and gives you the model that triggered the event as callback argument.