Great post, needs to be said sometimes that custom code is always going to be smaller and do just enough. I'm also working on a real-time socket.io app and fin

Great post, needs to be said sometimes that custom code is always going to be smaller and do just enough. I'm also working on a real-time socket.io app and find that I can keep most of the data model logic on the server, and the front-end is focused on user interactions & rendering data. I do use Backbone but only the Views, but the overall architecture of the front end is clean, simple, and minimal.