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Most of the time, we pass an existing element in the DOM as the el option when constructing a view. It is more efficient and concise to define tagName and className on the view and add its element to the page when rendering has completed (because the browser can do a single update).
Jasmine tests
Many of our Jasmine tests are really doing behavioral testing as opposed to unit testing. We should try to find ways to make these classes more unit testable and do behavioral testing in bok choy, which is the more appropriate framework for that kind of thing.
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