I did something similar for a Backbone app. I have the last rendered html on cache (when it is too big I have to use the server, although I store it as plain st

I did something similar for a Backbone app. I have the last rendered html on cache (when it is too big I have to use the server, although I store it as plain static html). Only after 'instant render' the page I find exisiting DOM elems and create+assign the corresponding views. Voilà!