Why not fork the project, add some of these topics, and send a pull request? I'm not being snarky or sarcastic - I personally would love to see some of the mor

Why not fork the project, add some of these topics, and send a pull request? I'm not being snarky or sarcastic - I personally would love to see some of the more advanced topics you mention included in the list of patterns, in particular loading events and optimisation. Unfortunately I don't think I know enough about Backbone to contribute anything useful - the only non-standard thing I have done so far is basic integration with Celery (https://github.com/mikery/django-celery-backbone https://github.com/mikery/django-celery-backbone).