This snippet shows how to bootstrap your Backbone models with Tastypie. If you're using 'api_name' for the URL of your api, make sure you add it to the Resource meta, otherwise 'resource_uri' will be empty when accessing from the view, but not from api ur

api.py

class CourseResource(ModelResource):
    class Meta:
        queryset = Course.objects.all()
        resource_name = 'courses'

        # without this resource_uri is empty in the view!
        api_name = settings.API_VERSION  

urls.py

# API Tastypie                       
from tastypie.api import Api

v1_api = Api(api_name = settings.API_VERSION) #settings.API_VERSION = 'v1'                                                                                                  
v1_api.register(CourseResource())    
v1_api.register(LessonResource())

urlpatterns = patterns('', 
    url(r'^api/', include(v1_api.urls)),
)

views.py

def dashboard(request, nav):                                                                                   
                   
    # Empty forms for the backbone templates                                                                  
    courseForm = CourseForm(auto_id='%s', label_suffix='')                                                    
    lessonForm = LessonForm(auto_id='%s', label_suffix='')                                                    
                           
    # All courses for current user                                                                            
    apiCourse = CourseResource()                                                                              
                           
    # like http://django-tastypie.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cookbook.html#using-your-resource-in-regular-views
    # but for a list of objs
    courses = apiCourse.obj_get_list()                                                                                                          
    bundles = (apiCourse.build_bundle(request=request, obj=course) for course in courses)                     
    dehydrated = [apiCourse.full_dehydrate(bundle) for bundle in bundles]                                     
                           
    return render_to_response('teachers/dashboard.html', {                                                    
                           
        'courses_json': apiCourse.serialize(None, {'objects': dehydrated}, 'application/json'),               
        'courseForm': courseForm,                                                                             
        'lessonForm': lessonForm,                                                                             
        'nav': nav,        
                           
    }, context_instance=RequestContext(request))