JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

HTML

<script src="http://underscorejs.org/underscore.js"></script>
<script src="http://backbonejs.org/backbone.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://getbootstrap.com/dist/css/bootstrap.css">
<script src="http://getbootstrap.com/dist/js/bootstrap.js"></script>
<div id='content'>
    <button id="main" >Start</button>
</div>

JavaScript

// scope everything to a function
function main() {
    
    function MyWrapper() {
        this.element = null;
    }
    MyWrapper.prototype.set = function(elem) {
        this.element = elem;
    }
    MyWrapper.prototype.get = function() {
        return this.element;
    }
    
    var MyView = Backbone.View.extend({
        tagName : "div",
        id : "view",
        events : {
            "click #button" : "onButton",
        },    
        initialize : function(options) {        
            // done for demo purposes only, should be using templates
            this.html_text = "<input type='text' id='textbox' /><button id='button'>Remove</button>";        
            this.listenTo(this,"all",function(){console.log("Event: "+arguments[0]);});
        },
        render : function() {        
            this.$el.html(this.html_text);
            
            this.wrapper = new MyWrapper();
            this.wrapper.set(this.$("#textbox"));
            this.wrapper.get().val("placeholder");
            
            return this;
        },
        onButton : function() {
            // assume this gets .remove() called on subviews (if they existed)
            this.trigger("cleanup");
            this.remove();
        }
    });
    
    var view = new MyView();
    $("#content").append(view.render().$el);
}

Expr = {};
Expr.cacheLength = 0;
$('#main').one('click', main);