Backbone DummyView: takes a template and an el and shoves it into the DOM upon instantiation.

gistfile1.js

var DummyView = Backbone.View.extend({
  initialize: function(options) {
    this.template = _.template(options.template.html());
    this.render();
  },
  render: function() {
    this.$el.html(this.template({}));
  }
});