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I'm rather confused about a few things:

1) Is there no index.html?

2) Can you develop locally?

3) How do you use the templates you showed?

4) Is the boilerplate you provide open sourced anywhere?

1) By default, Backlift generates the index.html file based on a few configurable parameters. We think this will work in many cases since the index file for a backbone.js site can simply provide a container for your html templates.

2) Not currently.

3) If you're starting a new app and you need a starting point you can do so by downloading a template. You can alternatively run "backlift init" with an existing project.

4) Not yet. We're thinking of creating a github project where devs can upload their own templates or tweak ours. Pulled templates will become available from the CLI. We don't have a specific timeline for this yet.

2) Wouldn't http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/docs/backbone-local... work for local development?

By the way, this is being actively developed: https://github.com/jeromegn/Backbone.localStorage

| 2) Not currently.

Shouldnt you be able to create your own index.html and then be fine as long as you dont hit Backbone.sync ?

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