This should actually only take you 2 minutes if you'd like to keep the old behavior ... regardless of how many View classes you happen to have in your app. For

This should actually only take you 2 minutes if you'd like to keep the old behavior ... regardless of how many View classes you happen to have in your app. For example: var originalView = Backbone.View; Backbone.View = function(options) { var instance = new originalView(options); instance.options = options; return instance; }; Ahh..., isn't JavaScript just a lovely thing ;)