Put your backbone zombies through the woodchipper

1view.coffee

#keep tabs on your vent bindings.  If you dont kill them they will slowly walk toward your app, and suck its brains (memory) out


#################
# INSTEAD OF
# App.Vent.bind('some_event', _.bind(some_callback, this))
# App.Vent.bind('other_event', _.bind(other_callback, this))
# Do
  @bindGlobalEvents
    some_event:             'someCallback'
    other_event

2base_view.coffee

#  Behind the scenes this will create a global array of pointers to your new Vent objects
#  It also will bind these events to @ for you

bindGlobalEvents: (events) ->
  @globalEvents ||= []
  for vent, callback of events
    fun = _.bind @[callback], @
    @globalEvents.push App.Vent.bind(vent, fun)

3controller.coffee

#  use a global variable to hold the view, and close that sucker before making a new one.  
#  if you dont it will come back and suck your brains

myView.close if myView
myView = new Backbone.View()

4base_view.coffee

#  Behind the scenes close will kill all those pesky global bindings and anything else needed to axe this sucker

  close: ->
    vent.unbind() for vent in @globalEvents || []
    @remove()
    @unbind()
    #  write custom cleanup in your view
    @onClose() if @onClose

5view.coffee

# Add an onClose method to do some callback action after the view is under flowers

onClose: ->  @walkSafeAtNight()