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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 navigation


The next part of our application will pull things together; it is the navigation bar. In previous applications, the navigation has been its own Backbone view, but this is not the case this time. Instead, we'll create a new server-side template just for navigation. We'll be able to use this as an include, as we did with the header and footer templates. So, create the nav.ejs file in the views directory and put the following code in it:

<nav>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="/">Tokenr</a></li>
    <li><a href="/"> Play </a></li>
    <li><a href="/scoreboard"> Scoreboard </a></li>
  </ul>
</nav>

It's a basic list; there isn't much navigating to do in our application. But of course, we'll need to add some styling. Here's the last addition to the style.css file in the public directory:

nav {
  margin:0;
  background-color: #4E5D6C;
  overflow: hidden;
  font-size:19px;
}
ul {
  list-style...