[drivebyacct2]

God, there are a billion Todo and Skeleton apps and hardly any that give you the principles to build a serious Backbone.js app. It's great, minimal, flexible and incredibly easy to use in a backward and convoluted way if you don't have something good to guide you.

Also, throwing HAML, SASS, Coffeescript, autogeneration and more into this makes this just... that much less useful.

[christensen_emc]

http://recipeswithbackbone.com/

Check out this book. It sounds like what you are looking for.

[mihar]

I agree. Less useful for you, more useful for someone who likes HAML, SASS and CoffeeScript.