I'm stuck with how to design my backbone.js application regarding to my model relationships.
If I have an event model , that has a couple of relationships, say a user model can have many events and the event model in turn can have many comments and participations. A user can have many comments and the participation can have one user and one event. Wow, what a mess!
Event has many Comments
Event has many Participations
Event has one User
User has many Events
User has many Participations
User has many Comments
Comment has one Event
Comment has one User
Participation has one User
Participation has one Event
Okey, so my thought was to load a list of events when the user loads the page, and when a user clicks on an event load the rest of the information about that event (comments, participations and user).
So the question is, should I use some sort of global variable to hold all events, users and so on, and when I grab information from the server put it there (and check there before I grab something from the server), maybe in some sort of localstorage (and how do I do this using backbone-relational?).
Another idea I've had is to let every event have its own independent data, the problem with this is that I will probably send redundant data every time I click on an event.
What way do you recommend?
thanks!