Don't use backbone.js, yet.

There were a ton of great talks at jQuery Conf San Francisco 2012, but to me the best was a talk by Daryll Koopersmith. The slides can be found here which I highly recommend you try and view and learn from, although I'll warn that it will likely be difficult without the speaker's context, though, but the crux of the lesson here is that everything that can be done with these new "MVWTF" framework A