I'm snprbob86's co-founder at Thinkfuse. Here's our actual jQuery cleanData wrapper (in coffeescript): https://gist.github.com/2046371 https://gist.github.com/2

I'm snprbob86's co-founder at Thinkfuse. Here's our actual jQuery cleanData wrapper (in coffeescript): https://gist.github.com/2046371 https://gist.github.com/2046371 jQuery.cleanData = _.wrap jQuery.cleanData, (cleanData, elems) -> for elem in elems $(elem).data('view')?.dispose() cleanData.apply @, arguments That lets jQuery handle garbage collecting automatically for us whenever the Backbone view's corresponding element is removed from the page. Just make sure your base view constructor sets the 'view' data attribute on it's element.