Overview Views observe Models The traditional controller role is performed by the template, not by the Backbone View Model persistence is the storage and synchronization of data A group of Models is a Collection A Model or Collection may have multiple Views observing it for changes Collections are useful for performing any aggregate computations across […]

Good for building single-page applications with a complex user interface (heavy lifting for view rendering) and for reducing the number of HTTP requests (data manipulation).  Web applications such as GMail, LinkedIn, and Facebook.  Do you want the page/view rendering handled by the browser or server? Resources Addy Osmani, Developing Backbone.js Applications (O’Reilly, 2013)