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Advanced Express Web Application Development

You're reading from   Advanced Express Web Application Development For experienced JavaScript developers this book is all you need to build highly scalable, robust applications using Express. It takes you step by step through the development of a single page application so you learn empirically.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783282494
Length 148 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Advanced Express Web Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Foundations 2. Building a Web API FREE CHAPTER 3. Templating 4. Real-time Communication 5. Security 6. Scaling 7. Production Index

Feature: Edit a project


Let's add an edit project form for our feature Edit a project. It consists of a text box for the project name a save and cancel button. Clicking on save will PUT the project to our Express server; clicking on cancel closes the form. We will use the same handlebars template we used for adding a project. In order to make RepositoryListView editable, we will need to introduce the concept of an edit state. We have called editMode.

Let's make some changes to projectView. We start by adding a new event edit to the events hash, which calls an edit function. We change our repository method by passing a new arg.editMode to event_aggregator, which will inform our RepositoryListView that it is in edit mode.

The edit method, which displays our project formTemplate, populated with our project model data calls the repository method with editMode set to false, informing RepositoryListView that it is in edit mode. Finally, we update our add, cancel, and save methods; calls in these...

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