Organized, scoped components https://github.com/adamjgrant/Scoped-Component-Example

api__user-table.js

var user_table_api = function(_$) {

  return {
    create: function(user) {
      _$.router.create(user).then(
        function() {
          if (_$.config.verbose) {
            $_(".alert").html("User created successfully");
          }
        },
        function(error) {
          if (_$.config.verbose) {
            $_(".alert").html("Could not delete user due to error: " + error);
          }
        }
      );
    },
    read: function(user_id) {},
    update: function(user_id) {},
    delete: function(user_id) {}
  }
};

config__user.js

var user_table_configuration = {
  options: {
    verbose: true
  },
  ready: function(_$) {
    _$.store.users.forEach(function() {
      // ...
    });
  }
}

events__user-table.js

var user_table_events = function(_$) {
  _$(".create").click(function() {
    _$.api.create({
      first_name: "Please choose a name",
      last_name: "",
      status: ""
    });

    _$.api.update();
  });

  _$(".read").click(function(e) {
    var user_id = e.target.dataset.userId;
    _$.api.read(user_id);
  });

  _$(".update").click(function(e) {
    var user_id = e.target.dataset.userId;
    _$.api.update(user_id);
  });

  _$(".delete").click(function() {
    var user_id = e.target.dataset.userId;
    _$.api.delete(user_id);
  });

  _$(".duplicate").click(function(e) {
    _$.api.create({
      first_name: e.target.dataset.first_name,
      last_name: e.target.dataset.last_name,
      status: e.target.dataset.status,
    });
  });
}

init.js

$.component.init = [
  "user-table",
  "datepicker",
  "file-uploader",
];

user_table.html.slim

div.attendees data-component="user-table"
  .alert
  nav
    ul
      li
        a href="#" Create new user
  table
    thead
      tr
        th First name
        th Last name
        th colspan="2" Status
    tbody
      template
        tr
          td.first-name ...
          td.last-name ...
          td.status ...
          td
            button.delete Delete
            button.edit Edit