I can't offer much help with many of the other issues you mentioned but if you really want to understand the internals of backbone better I don't think there's

I can't offer much help with many of the other issues you mentioned but if you really want to understand the internals of backbone better I don't think there's really a better path than reading the annotated source [0]. One of backbone's strengths is that it is so minimal, and the source so compact. 0. http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html