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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

Adding new words


Let's add one more feature to our application; the ability to add new words to the word list. We won't allow just any user to do this, only administrators. How exactly can we make a user an administrator? Well, we'll cheat. Open the users.json file directly, and add an "admin":true property to the user object of our choice. Then, we'll open the server.js file; first is the GET route for /new:

app.get('/new', function (req, res) {
  if (req.user && req.user.admin) {
    res.render('new.ejs');
  } else {
    res.redirect('/');
  }
});

If there's a user logged in, and that user is an administrator, then we'll render the new word template. Otherwise, we'll redirect to the root route. Create the new.ejs file in the views directory, and write this:

<% include header %>
<% include nav %>
<div id='main'>
  <form method="post" action="/new">
    <h1> Add a Word </h1>
    <p>Word:</p>
    <p><input type='text' name='word...