One of the good things about Backbone.js is it doesn’t tell us how to do things. It leaves it for us to decide what are the best practices for writing views (or any components).
This is also one of the worst things about Backbone. it makes it almost too easy to take the wrong path, and write views that will be hard to maintain.
The principle we should follow when writing a view is to keep it encapsulated, and keep it as “dumb” as possible – a view should know only the bare minimum it needs to know in order to do it’s job, and do bare minimum it has to do.
Here are 3 simple tips that can help us achieve this:
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