backbone.stickit not updating with model change

Question

I have a backbone.sticket binding attached to a model associated with a mainView view:

bindings: -> {
        ".some-class": "someAttribute",
    }

and the following template

<div class="some-class"></div>

The attribute populates correctly, but when I attempt to edit someAttribute in the browser console:

router.mainView.model.attributes.someAttribute = "TEST"

nothing changes in the binding, even though typing

router.mainView.model.attributes.someAttribute

into the browser console returns "TEST" as expected.

Should I expect the content of the div to be changing in the browser as well?

Answer 1

Sticket is presumably event based and Backbone events don't work that. If you edit a model's attributes by hand, nothing in Backbone will know what happened so no events will be triggered. If you want events to be triggered, you need to use set:

router.mainView.model.set('someAttribute', 'TEST')
// or
router.mainView.model.set({ someAttribute: 'TEST' })

Either of those should generate "change" events and that's probably what Sticket uses to hook itself up.