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Re:Backbone patterns by fooandbarify on Thursday February 09, 2012 @01:15PM (#3572227)
Depending on the other content of the page and the nature of your traffic/user data, it might make more sense to take advantage of caching by making the initial loaded resource (the HTML file) completely static and loading the bootstrapped data in a single separate request.
Re:Backbone patterns by jashkenas on Thursday February 09, 2012 @05:14PM (#3573360)
Yes, absolutely. If the initial HTML page is heavy, and can be cached for all users, then separate makes sense. If the initial HTML page is light, or user-specific (the usual case for a backbone app) then bootstrapping in a single HTTP request makes sense.