Displaying Content from a Model

Now that we’ve covered displaying static content, let’s move on to displaying content containing data from a model. As you may know, one of Backbone’s selling points is the possibility of structuring JavaScript applications with a model-view-controller (MVC) pattern. In this pattern, we use so-called models to interact with our data, passing them onto views for rendering the information they contain.

So, let’s declare a model within our JavaScript block above our view declaration: