To echo other comments in this thread -- if you're a beginner just looking to get started with a Backbone app, this may not be the best "skeleton". If you look at the GitHub repo:

https://github.com/mihar/backbone-skeleton/

... you'll find a somewhat odd scaffold that doesn't give you much more than a raw Sinatra app with Backbone included on a page -- but will probably feel far more confusing, with the inclusion of arbitrary bits of code:

https://github.com/mihar/backbone-skeleton/blob/master/src/c...

If you look at this as an interesting example of an extraction from an existing app -- that's great; more power to you. But I'd be wary of using it as a "skeleton" to start building your own thing.

That said, if other folks want to share their basic setup or source code, like @dangrossman did, that would be lovely. I'll start: https://github.com/documentcloud/documentcloud/tree/master/p...