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Here you will find all documentation
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- [Backbone with organizations](doc/frontend/js/backbone-with-organizations.md)
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- [cdb.god model](doc/frontend/js/cdb.god-model.md)
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- [Global objects](doc/frontend/js/global-objects.md)
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- [Conventions](doc/frontend/conventions)
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As a general rule setting variables and objects in global namespace is highly discouraged. Instead, the code related to the CartoDB should be placed in the `cdb.admin` namespace.
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There are some use-cases where having a global objects makes things simpler and easier to maintain, see below.
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### cdb.god
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The `cdb.god` is a Backbone model which is intended to be used a global event bus to make it easier to bind and trigger to events that affects the global state in some way.
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As a general rule accessing global objects is highly discouraged, but there are some use-cases where having a global mechanism makes things simpler and easier to maintain, e.g.:
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- Global UI state changes
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- Some UI action should have a side-effect in another view, but they either don't know about each other and/or are logically located far away from each other.
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If you [search for `cdb.god.`](https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=cdb.god.)) in the source code you can see where it's currently applied.
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[Search for `cdb.god.`](https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=cdb.god.)) in the source code you can see where it's currently applied.
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