Backbone Marionette Difference between CompositeView & CollectionView?

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I see that both share almost the same properties & functions so what is the main difference for these two?

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That question is addressed here: https://github.com/marionettejs/backbone.marionette/wiki/Use-cases-for-the-different-views

In short, you'll want to use CompositeView if you want to wrap a template around the collection (ex: a list with a header and footer). CollectionView doesn't know how to render a template.

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http://blog.marionettejs.com/2016/08/23/marionette-v3/index.html

Version 2.x had many different kinds of views: View, ItemView, LayoutView, CollectionView, CompositeView.

In version 3 ItemView, and LayoutView were ‘merged’ into View, and CompositeView was deprecated for removal in v4. Now we have only View and CollectionView.

and layouts were removed too