Backbone's philosophy is to keep things very loose, and let you decide how to couple Model<->View relationships; i.e., just setting a view's model doesn't expli

Backbone's philosophy is to keep things very loose, and let you decide how to couple Model<->View relationships; i.e., just setting a view's model doesn't explicitly update the view with new model data. I've had what sounds like a similar situation: I want to display on the view that the model is being updated. In this case, I set a flag on the current view when starting an action, then I watch out for 'sync' events on the model; when the 'sync' message is raised, I perform an action based on the set flags.