maybe that's my problem with backbone and all these frameworks without a lot of conventions. i am not really good at javascript and can't figure out which approach is the bestestest.
You put vendor styles / scripts in `vendor`, then you edit your `app` files. No matter what language you want to write, brunch will compile it on `brunch watch` or `brunch build`.
Of course you can make some sophisticated makefiles and connect sophisticated file watchers there (brunch fastly rebuilds project on every small change), but why do this when there's brunch which just works?
Plugin I wrote for managing layout/views in Backbone. Provides a ton of features and flexibility. Before 0.5.0 it wasn't very stable for lists/collections.
I'd highly recommend giving it a shot, because it makes writing Backbone applications significantly easier.