Why use marionette's appRouter instead of the regular one (backbone)?

Question

JavaScript

Version 3.0
The following piece of code can be gleaned from the official documentation:

var MyRouter = Marionette.AppRouter.extend({
  // "someMethod" must exist at controller.someMethod
  appRoutes: {
    "some/route": "someMethod"
  },

  /* standard routes can be mixed with appRoutes/Controllers above */
  routes : {
    "some/otherRoute" : "someOtherMethod"
  },
  someOtherMethod : function(){
    // do something here.
  }
});

Roughly speaking, we can define it someMethodoutside the router, just somewhere on the controller. Is this the only difference? Or is there some other convenient use of appRoute instead of the usual route?

Answer 1

Essentially there is no difference. The puppet's AppRouter will simply allow you to specify a controller that will handle your routes. That is, you can take out the logic of processing routes in a separate entity and manipulate it.