Mastering Backbone.js

CollectionView

Backbone Collections are composed of many models, so when rendering a collection what we need is to render a list of Views:

class CollectionView extends Backbone.View {
  render() {
    // Render a view for each model in the collection
    var html = this.collection.map(model => {
      var view = new this.modelView(model);
      view.render();
      return view.$el;
    });

    // Put the rendered items in the DOM
    this.$el.html(html);
    return this;
  }
}

Note that the modelView property should be a View class; it could be our ModelView class of the previous section or any other view. See how for each model in the collection it instantiates and renders a this.modelView with the current model. As a result, an html variable will contain an array of all rendered views. Finally ...