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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

User accounts


We'll start as we did in the last chapter; by adding user account to our basic application. We won't go over the whole process again; you can copy it from the previous chapter's application. There's only one change we have to make. In the app.post('/create') route, we create a userAttrs object that we store in the database. Users of this application will have three application-specific values to store:

  • score: This is their highest score

  • time: This is their lowest time

  • games: This is an array of the games they have played

Here's the code to create the userAttrs object:

var userAttrs = {
  username: req.body.username,
  passwordHash: signin.hashPassword(req.body.password),
  score: 0,
  time: 3600,
  games: []
};

With this in place, and all the other user account creation code we've previously created, we have the shell of an application, ready to customize.