[dustingetz]

one thing React by itself can do that React+Backbone.Model can't, is handle oddly shaped state. Which is almost all of your state, once your application becomes nontrivial.

http://jsfiddle.net/dustingetz/YUCBT/2/

[porker]

Sorry, what is your fiddle meant to show? It's not clear form the source what problem you're illustrating.