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Advanced Express Web Application Development

By : Andrew Keig
Book Image

Advanced Express Web Application Development

By: Andrew Keig

Overview of this book

Building an Express application that is reliable, robust, maintainable, testable, and can scale beyond a single server requires a bit of extra thought and effort. Express applications that need to survive in a production environment will need to reach out to the Node ecosystem and beyond, for support.You will start by laying the foundations of your software development journey, as you drive-out features under test. You will move on quickly to expand on your existing knowledge, learning how to create a web API and a consuming client. You will then introduce a real-time element in your application.Following on from this, you will begin a process of incrementally improving your application as you tackle security, introduce SSL support, and how to handle security vulnerabilities. Next, the book will take you through the process of scaling and then decoupling your application. Finally, you will take a look at various ways you can improve your application's performance and reliability.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Advanced Express Web Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Feature: List projects


Let's build the client for our feature List projects. Each item in the list consists of a project name and an edit and delete button. Clicking on the name will display a list of repositories; clicking on edit will display an inline form populated with the models' data, and clicking on delete will delete the item from our database. We will return to hook up these three functions later. For now, we will simply display a project list.

What follows is an HTML template ./templates/projects.hbs for a project item; it contains a placeholder {{_id}}, which will be replaced by our Backbone application:

<a href="#{{_id}}" data-id="{{_id}}">{{name}}</a>
<button class="delete btn btn-mini btn-primary list-btn">del </ button>
<button class="edit btn btn-mini btn-primary list-btn spacer ">edit e</button>

Let's define a skeleton Backbone application with all of its pieces in place: ./public/components/vision/vision.js. We start by defining the Vision...