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Asked: 2026-06-04T20:11:01+00:00

The normal way to bootstrap your app with backbone as described in the docs

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The normal way to bootstrap your app with backbone as described in the docs is this

var Accounts = new Backbone.Collection;
Accounts.reset(<%= @accounts.to_json %>);

Here, we are using the server side tags <%= ... %>, <?php echo ... ?>, etc.

But in my app I am passing very thin HTML from the server. Something like this

<html><head></head><body></body>
<script src="init.js"></script>
<html>

In this case how should I bootstrap my data for my backbone models and collections?

Backbone recommends against using fetch

Note that fetch should not be used to populate collections on page load — all models needed at load time should already be bootstrapped in to place. fetch is intended for lazily-loading models for interfaces that are not needed immediately.

But I wonder if that’s the right thing to do in cases like mine?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I didn’t want to put my opinion as an answer, but I think I can say, “there is no reason, technical or otherwise, not to use fetch to load your models on page load in this use case”. 8)

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