Arrays in a Backbone.js Model are essentially static?

Question

Why are arrays in a Backbone.js Model essentially static variables?

class exports.Content extends Backbone.Model
    tags: []

then if i mak

Answer 1

benpickles is correct when it comes to Backbone models, and the way to do this in coffeescript in general is to initialize instance properties in the constructor:

class Foo
  constructor: ->
    @bar = []