It’s painstakingly slow to start projects in Backbone using Require. I have created a simple boilerplate to save me some time when I need to start a new Backbone project.

The app contains a single model, a single collection and a single view. It also has support for the Require.js text library for ajaxing templates into the app.

The current folder structure is as follows:

├── css
│   └── base.css
├── js
│   ├── app
│   │   ├── tmpl
│   │   │   └── template.html
│   │   ├── collection.js
│   │   ├── model.js
│   │   └── view.js
│   ├── libs
│   │   ├── backbone-min.js
│   │   ├── jquery-2.0.3.min.js
│   │   ├── text.js
│   │   └── underscore-min.js
│   ├── main.js
│   └── require.js
└── index.html

It’s a bare bones approach and it’s hosted on GitHub, feel free to download it and maybe even contribute to it.