stackatoapps/node-backbone-mongo repository overview

⁠node-backbone-mongo

https://github.com/jamesor/todomvc/tree/master/labs/architecture-examples/backbone_node_mongo⁠

⁠TodoMVC

⁠A common demo application for popular JavaScript MV* frameworks

⁠Introduction

This demo was written to illustrate how a server-side JavaScript solution could be applied to the TodosMVC application.

⁠Technologies Used In This Demo

• Underscore.js⁠ - A utility-belt library for JavaScript without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects.
• Backbone.js⁠ - Gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.
• jQuery⁠ - A fast, concise, library that simplifies how to traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add AJAX.
• node.js⁠ - Event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8.
• Express⁠ - High performance, high class web development for node.js.
• Jade⁠ - High performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for node.js.
• Stylus⁠ - Expressive, dynamic, robust CSS for node.js
• Mongoose⁠ - A MongoDB object modeling tool designed to work in an asynchronous environment.
• MongoDB⁠ - A scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database.

⁠Running the Demo locally

1. Install node.js⁠.
2. Install MongoDB⁠.
3. Start the MongoDB server from a terminal window:

$ mongod

1. Change the working directory to the project root:

$ cd <path to todosmvc directory>/labs/architecture-examples/backbone_node_mongo/

1. Install dependencies using the node package manger (npm).

$ sudo npm link

1. Start the Todos demo server from a different terminal window:

$ node app

1. Visit http://localhost:3000⁠ in a web browser.

⁠Running the demo on Stackato

1. stackato push -n

Make sure you are pushing to a Stackato cluster that has the mongodb service enabled.

⁠Credit

• Jérôme Gravel-Niquet⁠ - Created original demo
• Addy Osmani⁠ - Cleanup, edits
• James O'Reilly⁠ - Added server-side tech from node.js to MongoDB.

⁠License

Public Domain