#Working with vertical backbone.js data structures
Backbone.js seems to generally be used to represent database tables on the client side. Collections can contain Models, but anything deeper is a bit unwieldy. Imagine you have a Model, to which you set an attribute with a Collection as the value. That Collection contains Models, which each also have Collection attributes and so on and so forth. The goodness of the add/remove event binding starts to break down a bit.
Along comes Backbrace.js.
Backbone enables jQuery-esque live calls to detect adds of Models or Collections regardless of how deep in the tree they are, regardless of whether any intermediate level exists yet.
For example:
var model = new Backbone.Model;
var callback = function(d, c, b, a) {
console.log('I only care about d in c in b in a...nothing in between');
};
model.live('a b c d', callback);
model.set('a', new Backbone.Model);
model.get('a').set('b' new Backbone.Model);
model.get('a').get('b').set('c', new Backbone.Model);
model.get('a').get('b').get('c').set('d', new Backbone.Model);
//Your callback was just called!Originally the callback only provided the leaf node, but it turned out to be a bit of a pain point to not have the branches as well, so I implemented that between the code example and this sentence. Enjoy!