DerbyJS, Metor, or you can extend Backbone Views to read a model from the DOM on initialization if the model is empty (granted you'd have to custom code the DO

DerbyJS, Metor, or you can extend Backbone Views to read a model from the DOM on initialization if the model is empty (granted you'd have to custom code the DOM-reading parts for each model that you plan on loading this way) Airbnb is working on something similar as well using Node+Backbone but it's not available yet. They said they're planning on open sourcing it eventually but we'll have to wait a few months. http://nerds.airbnb.com/weve-launched-our-first-nodejs-app-to-product http://nerds.airbnb.com/weve-launched-our-first-nodejs-app-t...