geekyme / backbonejade.io

Test implementation of a Backbone.js app, powered by Node.js, it's templating engine Jade and socket.io

BackboneJade.io

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A demo implementation of Backbone.js powered by Node.js, Express, Jade, Backbone.io

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What does this do?

• Use of Jade to render initial HTML, and bootstrap a list of users (from dummy server DB :p) into backbone
• How socket.io is used on backbone.js, using Backbone.io
• CRUD on a list of users
• Use of dustjs-linkedin on the frontend to render html templates

Instructions

• npm install
• node app.js
• Next fire up a few browsers and go to http://localhost:8080
• Click one of the names and see what happens to the other browsers!
• Try creating a new user / deleting them and see what happens to the other browsers too! The name changing effect also applies to newly added users
• Refresh your browsers to see if data persists
• Feel free to hack on this more to see what else you can do with socket.io + backbone

Misc

• package.json list a number of node packages many of which are not necessary but are just hot favourites, simply adding them for convenience