documentcloud/backbone — Issue #817: Why don't views have a `model` property by default?
Author: JustinDrake
Created: 2011-12-25 19:06:19+00:00
State: open

As you say, "Backbone views are almost more convention than they are code". It seems the de facto convention is for views to keep track of their model using the `model` property. Why not formalize this, in the same way we have `initialize`, `el`, `render`, etc. acting as placeholders?