[bmelton]

That is perhaps a better answer than the one I gave.

Without said guidance, I ended up created multiple views to represent the same area on the page instead of using subtemplates.

Same thing with Collections -- on my first try at something serious, I ended up with multiple collections to represent the same data set, but in different states.

Perhaps, for people who have been working extensively with Javascript before Backbone, this comes more intuitively, but for me, it's been a pretty painstaking process.

In addition to that, conflicting guidance from the various unofficial docs, without explanation of why they did something differently, led me to wondering which way made sense, and it generally wasn't until well after implementation that I realized I'd done it the wrong way.