title: Backbone.js and user authentication
body: <p>I have been wondering for quite a while how I would go about authenticating users using Backbone because I have been reading a few articles about it and a lot of them are talking about tokens and keys.. But I just want to be able to sign in a user and register a user like you would normally.</p>
  
  <p>I was thinking that on the web app start up there would be a request to the route '/me' and then the server gives the user back appropriate information if he/she is logged in.</p>
  
  <p>Like if the route came back with <code>{loggedIn: false}</code> the backbone router would send the user to the login/register pages only. But if it came back with a users profile information then it would obviously mean he had a session.</p>
  
  <p>Is this an okay way of going back user authentication when using Backbone?</p>