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Or you could create restful APIs simply with django-piston, django-tastypie or (my new personal favorite) django-dagny.

Yes, and there is already a decent wrapper for backbone and tastypie http://joshbohde.com/blog/backbonejs-and-django This is my personal favorite.

Nice tutorial, thanks!

Thanks for the recommendation! I'm glad you like it.

As far as wrappers for backbone and tastypie, I think https://github.com/PaulUithol/backbone-tastypie is a pretty good starting point, and a little more complete than what I wrote there.

Oh, I thought they were related until now. This one is actually what I _use_. Yours is what came up in a search.

I'll throw Django REST Framework in the mix there as well: http://django-rest-framework.org/