Can anyone comment on using Ractive as a replacement to Backbone.View? I'd think that making Ractive the view layer in a Backbone app would go a long way in augmenting a lot of the things that Backbone refuses to do in views (binding, smart DOM management/manipulation, actual templating support)
There's a Ractive.extend() function for this exact use case, which allows you to incorporate all the functionality your Backbone View would have in a reusable constructor. Info on the wiki: https://github.com/Rich-Harris/Ractive/wiki/Ractive.extend()
There's also a concept of 'adaptors' which are ideal for Backbone.Model <-> Ractive binding, though it's a bit experimental and incomplete at the moment. You can bind to a model manually like
model = new MyBackboneModel( attrs );
ractive = new Ractive({ el: whatever, template: tpl, data: model.attributes });
model.on( 'change', function ( model ) {
ractive.set( model.changed );
});
