Exploring Client-Side MVC with Backbone.js

Nice write-up. We're using backbone on a project which is an SPA with a pretty rich domain model. At any point, we may have multiple representations of the same models on the screen. When changes come in from the server, we update the appropriate models and all of the views update accordingly. It's pretty awesome to see it in action.

I've observed that there's a notable learning curve with backbone (maybe all client-side mvc). It may be because the framework doesn't dictate best practices (it's pretty unopinionated, as they say). Also, I've seen backbone thrown into web apps that weren't a good fit, resulting in a lot of friction.

This is a decent post, but why did you decide to use CoffeeScript? It seems like just another hurdle for people trying to learn Backbone.