There are plenty of two-way DOM binding add-ons for backbone. OutbackJS makes it work like Knockout, but maps onto backbone models (disclosure: I wrote this on

There are plenty of two-way DOM binding add-ons for backbone. OutbackJS makes it work like Knockout, but maps onto backbone models (disclosure: I wrote this one). Most of my models in production apps have zero complexity - a url property is usually all that distinguishes them, and outback bindings means that I a) don't have to litter my code with jQuery nonsense, and b) don't really have to muck with models beyond fetching and saving them. [1] https://github.com/politician/outback https://github.com/politician/outback