I want to echo this last remark. We often need to sync with the server and our UI can get to be relatively complex. Backbone is an outstanding tool for us. Howe

I want to echo this last remark. We often need to sync with the server and our UI can get to be relatively complex. Backbone is an outstanding tool for us. However, we don't have single page apps (yet) and we've removed any routers from our apps since they were unnecessary. I believe many of the references on the web regarding Backbone (blogs, tutorials, stackoverflow) actually confuse matters and made my team's learning curve steeper than it needed to be. Also, the Backbone documentation isn't particularly newbie friendly. I strongly advise anyone first looking into Backbone to ignore Routers completely until the relationship between Models and Views is understood, and you've deciphered the patterns that express that relationship. We also use Coffeescript, which increased the trouble of learning Backbone. But it was well worth the extra head scratching.