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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

Writing the server code


The server code is very simple for this application. First, we need to render the index.ejs template with the event models in the database. So, make sure our GET request catch-all looks like the following code:

app.get('/*', function (req, res) {
  db.find(function (err, events) {
    res.render("index.ejs", { events: JSON.stringify(events) });
  });
});

Now, in the index.ejs file of the views folder, in the router creation code, remove the dummy records that we put in and replace it with the template data, like this:

calendar: new App.Models.Calendar(<%- events %>)

Back in the server.js file, we need the route that the POST request is sent to when we're creating a new Event model. Its code is as follows:

app.post('/events', function (req, res) {
  var b = req.body;
  db.insert({
    title: b.title,
    date: b.date,
    startTime: b.startTime,
    endTime: b.endTime
  }, function (err, evt) {
    res.json(evt);
  -});
});

We get the request body, and then create...