One of the patterns looks like it requires more processing power than necessary. The rendering of a template should be fast, since you will likely be doing it m

One of the patterns looks like it requires more processing power than necessary. The rendering of a template should be fast, since you will likely be doing it many times on a page. ContactView = Backbone.View.extend({ template: function() { var template = _.template($("#template-contact").html()); return template.apply(this, arguments); }, render: function() { // This is a dictionary object of the attributes of the models. // => { name: "Jason", email: "j.smith@gmail.com" } var dict = this.model.toJSON(); // Pass this object onto the template function. // This returns an HTML string. var html = this.template(dict); // Append the result to the view's element. $(this.el).append(html); // ... } }) Note that the template is already on the page and has to be serialized by jQuery with the `_.template($("#template-contact").html());` line. It would be faster to already have the template in a JavaScript string, ready to be interpolated with your values. Otherwise, for every view you will be fetching the template from the DOM. The difference in implementation would be from this: <div id="template-contact">Mail me at <%= email %></div> to this: <script>var templateContact = "Mail me at <%= email %>"</script> It's a bit more work, but it reduces the amount of work that has to happen just to render one of many templates.