This is by design. If you want a framework with lots of these features, they exist. Backbone is intended to be a spartan framework for developers who like tha

This is by design. If you want a framework with lots of these features, they exist. Backbone is intended to be a spartan framework for developers who like that. It is very easy to extend or override whatever functionality you want since it is very small and easy to understand. Continuous feature bloat would ruin it.