no-silent.md

Prevent using silent option in functions that cause events (no-silent)

Per Backbone documentation, passing silent flag is rarely if ever a good idea. A better way is to have your event handler determine if the event needs to be accepted on. This rule applies to the following commands: set, unset, reset, clear, remove, add, push, unshift, shift, sort, create

Rule Details

The following patterns are considered warnings:

Backbone.Model.extend({
    intialize: function() {
        this.set('test', 'test', {silent:true});
    }
});

The following patterns are not warnings:

Backbone.Model.extend({
    intialize: function() {
        this.set('test', 'test');
    }
});

When Not To Use It

If you know what you are doing and want your action to trigger no events you might need to disable this rule.

Further Reading

BackboneJS Documentation