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powmedia / backbone-forms

Form framework for BackboneJS with nested forms, editable lists and validation
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reasons bb-forms is still fixed to bb ~1.2? #539

Closed 0xgeert closed 7 years ago

0xgeert commented 7 years ago

Any known reasons why backbone-forms is still fixed to backbone minor version 1.2? (i.e.: package.json entry backbone: ~1.1.2. I.e.: any reason NOT to use the more relaxed backbone: ^1.1.2 ? Afaik, but not sure which is why I'm asking, there haven't been any breaking changes in backbone since.

background: after inspecting the size of my JS-bundle it turns out I'm using 2 separate releases of backbone. 1) the latest I'm referencing myself (package.json: backbone: ^1.3.3) and 2) the one backbone.forms depends on. This gives me itches all over.

Anu solutions?

glenpike commented 7 years ago

No specific reason, bar not changing it yet. We're working towards a release so will update the version too.

0xgeert commented 7 years ago

ok cool.

DavidUnzue commented 7 years ago

I'm using the latest release of Backbone (v1.3.3) all over my application and because of backbone-forms loading Backbone v1.1.2 I get some conflict issues. I'm requiring backbone-forms with Browserify and not able to bind jQuery like shown in the docs, so if I do:

var Backbone = require('backbone');
Backbone.$ = require('jquery')
var Forms = require('backbone-forms');

I get the error:

Backbone.$ is not a function

If I manually change the version of Backbone internally loaded by backbone-forms to the newest one (v1.3.3), the issue disappears.

@glenpike When are you planning to update to the new version? Or what would be the solution here?

glenpike commented 7 years ago

This sounds more like a tooling issue - Backbone Forms will just require the version of Backbone that is available, but there could be an issue with duplicate versions in the tree.

Something like this problem? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27931982/how-do-i-prevent-browserify-from-including-multiple-versions-of-sub-dependencies

Regarding updates. I've not had chance to work on this project for a while, so updating hasn't been on my radar - sorry. @benflodge were you looking at upgrading the version of Backbone, or have you done this successfully?