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by StavrosK 5487 days ago
If Spine is anything to go by, you bind events from the view to the model and then trigger them from your code on the model instance.
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jashkenas 5487 days ago
Usually that's the case -- but if you know for certain that there's a one-to-one relationship between a model and it's view, then there's no harm in having a direct reference for convenience. Pragmatism > Purity, where UI code is concerned.
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StavrosK 5487 days ago
I agree with you. I'm concerned about memory leaks from the circular references, though.
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jashkenas 5487 days ago
Circular references are garbage collected -- no need to worry about them.

You might be thinking of a terrible old IE bug where circular references between JavaScript objects and DOM nodes were never collected, but that's never been an issue with JavaScript-only references.

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StavrosK 5487 days ago
Oh, I didn't know that. That alleviates many of my concerns, then, thank you.
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