The inline templates in the views (stuff.coffee) hurts the zen aura of the code

[clyfe]

Having heredoc literal string templates inside the .coffee views /app/views/**/view.coffee is obtrusive.
Have you thought of using something similar to ICanHaz ( https://github.com/andyet/ICanHaz.js ) ie.:

# some.html
<script type="text/template" id="todo-template">
    <span><%= name %></span> ...
</script>

# some_view.coffee
template: _.template($('#todo-template').html())

or maybe have an /app/templates dir where to store the view templates as ejs strings ie. /app/templates/posts/list.html.ejs and read it in the Backbone view

# some_view.coffee
template: _.template(R.read_the_view_somehow('list'))