Alias Backbone objects on Marionette

[jamesplease]

Marionette.Model = Backbone.Model;
Marionette.Collection = Backbone.Collection;
Marionette.extend = Backbone.Model.extend;
Marionette.History = Backbone.History;
Marionette.history = Backbone.history;

Why not? This way people can just use the Marionette object and not even worry about Backbone.

This will tidy up people's code, and I think it makes Marionette feel more standalone, and less like an extension.

If we do this, we might also consider renaming Marionette.View to Marionette.BaseView, or something.

[samccone]

This is confusing to me, but let me think on it I guess

[paulovieira]

I don't think this is a good idea because it gives the impression that Marionette is extending Model and Collection as is doing for View. It might be confusing because people won't find anything about Marionette.Model in the docs (except that it is aliased).

Other downside is that it might cause incompatibilities with plugins that act on the Model/Collection department (the plugins might be expecting to have a reference to Backbone.Model).

[jamesplease]

There should be more discussion about this, but for now it's going to the v3 doc.

#1796

[jamesplease]

nvm i think this is a bad idea as well