[bemaniac]

Yeah, it seems weird, but that's the way it works in Backbone (at least for us). Views are more similar to iOS' UIViewController than a Rails view.

Backbone views handle event binding and rendering, so they're more similar to Rails controllers, if anything.

[jashkenas]

... that's not always the case. I don't know if there's enough out there yet to establish a canon, but we try to keep most reusable business logic in the models, and leave views to UI concerns. If you want to browse around:

https://github.com/documentcloud/documentcloud/tree/master/p...

[bemaniac]

To rephrase, we found that most logic in our app was view/event/interaction-related, and we found that keeping that stuff in the views made more sense for us.