[southpolesteve]

This seems like a horrible way to do things. I really don't want to throw a ton of loop logic (data-foreach?) and other data attributes in my HTML.

I think all of the JS MVC frameworks will be short lived. Someone (hopefully) will develop with a real soup to nuts solution that will make writing a front end heavy app simple. In Rails, I can see it being as easy as "act_as_front_end" somewhere, and the app automatically serves up your JSON to a generated frontend that mirrors your Rails app. I know that would be a hard thing to make, but this is where things should converge.