I'd also recommend looking into Chaplin for stronger routing / app design. It's got a great CollectionView, which is one of the most common use cases for Backbone (also seems to solve a lot of the gripes with plain Backbone
Chaplin is a mess. I need node, npm, build a bunch of stuff from scratch? I've already lost interest (I looked at Chaplin a few months ago and honest to God couldn't even figure out what the hell it did besides download various crap to a /lib/ dir. Aren't there six dozen tools that do that?)
