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General:

Two types of pages: - normal page Normal pages are made using templates and then loaded in using the GenericView. Specified and configured in the router.

- javascript generated pages
  Contain custom extensions of GenericView. Might Need to load from several templates.
  List of javascript pages: home page (views/main.js)

CSS:

• all rules in main.css

  Special CSS: subtitle

  • text in people pages

All text elements are padded to the left by 6px.

Flow:

Loading a site:

• user navigates to router
• router matches url
• passes in template to view
• render site

Index:

GenericView Basic view that all other views extend

Properties:
    cssRoot
    title
    analytics code

Hooks:
    preRender
    postRender

Render:
    - loads css
    - clear html
    - apply preRender
    - renders template
    - reveals template
    - apply postRender
    - adds analytics

Groups:

Page GenericView Template

Other:

Examples: dependency-examples/backbone_require/js/views/todos.js