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Backbone.js Blueprints

By : Andrew Burgess
Book Image

Backbone.js Blueprints

By: Andrew Burgess

Overview of this book

<p>Backbone.js is an open source, JavaScript library that helps you to build sophisticated and structured web apps. It's important to have well-organized frontend code for easy maintenance and extendability. With the Backbone framework, you'll be able to build applications that are a breeze to manage.<br /><br />In this book, you will discover how to build seven complete web applications from scratch. You'll learn how to use all the components of the Backbone framework individually, and how to use them together to create fully featured applications. In addition, you'll also learn how Backbone thinks so you can leverage it to write the most efficient frontend JavaScript code.<br /><br />Through this book, you will learn to write good server-side JavaScript to support your frontend applications. This easy-to-follow guide is packed with projects, code, and solid explanations that will give you the confidence to write your own web applications from scratch.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Backbone.js Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating the events table


At this point, we're successfully creating new event records and storing them in our database. The next step is to display the table of events. We'll start with the EventsView class.

Actually, we'll start with template for this view. In templates/events.html, we'll create the thead and tbody elements as follows:

<thead>
  <tr>
    <th data-field="id">ID</th>
    <th data-field="title">Title</th>
    <th data-field="details">Details</th>
    <th data-field="date">Date</th>
    <th data-field="createdOn">Created On</th>
    <th> Actions </th>
  </tr>
</thead>
<tbody></tbody>

As you can see, our table will show the five fields that our events have. We also have a sixth column for actions: the edit and delete actions. We have a data attribute on each one of the table heading elements, with names that match the property names of the Event records. We'll use these...