If you start writing an application using Backbone.js and Coffeescript as we did recently, you’ll quickly discover that they are both great tools. However, what you may not notice right away if you’re new to Coffeescript is that there are certain parts of Backbone’s example Todos application that become unnecessary or clunky if translated verbatim to CoffeeScript. Following are a few little things
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