@jenkinsj Great work. This is clean, readable and well commented. Many of the patterns are great for a `hello world` backbone/node app.<p>I noticed you are using the underscore.js templating engine, and that you are embedding the templates in script tags within a 'shadow' dom poly-fill.<p>you might want to use <template> tags instead, and use display:none to poly-fill. I found that it works pretty well, and it's more semantically correct. Browsers should expect template tags in the future to be templates. I have tested this in number of browsers and it seems pretty well supported even in IE.<p><template> tags reference
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