Thanks! Yes, I had some issues with dealing with collections, and also tying collections in with views. Really it was more of a mismatch between what I expected and what I
should have expected. Additionally, making the mistake of assigning data on the prototype of an object rather than the instance itself was an initial mistake I was making but I that's just a JS gotcha.
Really the best resource I found was just googling for examples. I didn't find the Todo example very helpful because it's not network oriented, but it does help for views.