Backbone itself doesn't have template support, but there are loads of libraries for that. There is a list in this performance rundown: http://jsperf.com/dom-vs

Backbone itself doesn't have template support, but there are loads of libraries for that. There is a list in this performance rundown: http://jsperf.com/dom-vs-innerhtml-based-templating/160 http://jsperf.com/dom-vs-innerhtml-based-templating/160 Another path is "anti templates" like http://beebole.com/pure/ http://beebole.com/pure/ or https://github.com/hij1nx/weld https://github.com/hij1nx/weld