title: Extending Custom Backbone View
body: <p>Using </p>
  
  <pre><code>Backbone.View.extend
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have created a Backbone View called <strong>MyView</strong>. In my view I've created a bunch of custom functions. The problem I'm having is that I need to create a new Backbone view that <strong>extends MyView</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>I don't want to create a new View and duplicate code... I just want to utilize inheritance to extend functionality... Problem is that I don't know the way to do it exactly, and I also don't know how to call the <strong>super</strong> functions in Backbone.</p>
  
  <p>*Edit - Thanks for the answers by some below, but still not quite sure how to call parent's method. For example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>// in subView
  {
  initialize: function(){
  // would like to do something like super.initialize()
   // here i would then declare variables exclusive to subview
  }
  </code></pre>