Difference between the Central EventBus and Backbone.Radio?

Question

In the context of Backbone.js and Marionette.js, what is the difference between the Central EventBus and the Backbone.Radio system? Does the Backbone.Radio system wrap the Central EventBus?

Answer 1

If you're talking about App.vent in Marionette v2.. then Radio can be shimmed in so that App.vent uses Radio in it's implementation.

However the events object on the App was removed in v3. Rather than having a single events object on the application and scoping events by a naming convention, we recommend using radio channels. You can still attach a radio channel to the Marionette.Application if you want to treat it like App.vent but it is no longer implemented this way for you. In general, if needed, I would recommend using Radio directly.