backbone.marionette

I would say it's because you guys are doing it wrong. Backbone is just a very bare-bones backbone for your app. As you say, views don't provide anything. In fact backbone barely helps you with organizing your code at all. It's great for making a todos app but terrible for anything stretching across multiple pages, and with more than 10 views on a page. Let's be serious here. DON'T USE BACKBONE TO START A NEW APP!!! DON'T USE BACKBONE TO START A NEW APP!!! DON'T USE BACKBONE TO START A NEW APP!!! Use one of the higher level frameworks built around backbone. The most flexible / clean, decoupled framework (my preference) is: https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.marionette If you like coffeescript: https://github.com/chaplinjs/chaplin If you want *only good views/layout: https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone.layoutmanager If you want model

Backbone.Marionette is a nice set of view classes (and a few other things) solving a lot of the typical use cases for Backbone in medium to large application. Amongst other things it provides a Layout view with a simple region manager to take care of 'full page' or large views with sub views. https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.marionette

I'm a big fan of Derick Bailey's stuff. He has a framework on top of Backbone called Marionette that is well documented and makes handling large apps much easier: https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.marionette He then builds an email client app with it: https://github.com/derickbailey/bbclonemail And has a ton of great articles on backbone: http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/category/backbone/ Definitely worth following his work.