James Please

I made a [BaseView](https://github.com/jmeas/marionette.base-view) that hides regions from me entirely, and it is truly awesome. I'm convinced that Regions are unnecessary for the consumer of the lib

@rogovdm I'm confident that your system can be reworked to not use regions. The most similar approach to what you're doing now would involve passing a jQuery object or node...

Thanks @paulovieira. There's more to the solution than this, so I wouldn't make a PR implementing the proposed fix here. I'll do up a PR soon to see how many...

> This is a large perf saving. Is it though? Maybe in cases of lots of Regions...but I can't imagine that it is for the majority use case. If this...

Here's my results of digging into the history of that controversial `if` statement in the LayoutView's render method: The `_firstRender = false;` flag was added in 050bc1da0a7b because of #295,...

> but the structure of the layouts is hidden in the code and so a newcomer to the code has to traverse it to learn what's happening. What do you...

Is this any different than when you're using application regions?

It should be fairly easy to move away from regions. To start, we would first need to provide all of the functionality that regions provide on the view itself. Once...

No time now, but I'll be working on it sometime soon-ish.

I think for the sake of the community not giving up on us we'll need to keep today's behavior the default...at least for now. But we can always add options...