Regarding point 2, I pulled together a boilerplate that my group uses as a template for new apps, and I'm working on creating a file gen in python. We make heav

Regarding point 2, I pulled together a boilerplate that my group uses as a template for new apps, and I'm working on creating a file gen in python. We make heavy use of AMD, and rely on a handful of legacy non-RESTful backend apps we need to overwrite sync to use, so I'm not sure an out-of-the-box backbone.app would work for us, anyway. Spine looks interesting, but backbone is working incredibly well for now.