Backbone view DOM element removed

Question

I keep reading about the Backbone.js zombie (or memory leak) problem. Basically you have to unbind and remove the element from the DOM when you no longer need it to make sure al

Answer 1

Backbone development version(master) now exposes _removeElement()

 remove: function() {
      this._removeElement();
      this.stopListening();
      return this;
    },

Remove this view’s element from the document and all event listeners attached to it. Exposed for subclasses using an alternative DOM manipulation API.

_removeElement: function() {
      this.$el.remove();
    },

http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html