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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: Create a project


Let's add a project form for our feature Create a project. It consists of a large Add project button, a text box for our project name, and save and cancel buttons. Clicking on save will POST the project to our Express server, whereas, clicking on cancel closes the form.

What follows is an HTML template ./templates/project-form.hbs for a repository item:

<form class="form-inline">
  <ul class="errors help"></ul>
  <label>name</label>
  <input class="name" placeholder="project name" required="required" value="{{name}}" autofocus />
  <br/><button class="cancel btn btn-mini btn-primary form-btn">cancel</button>
  <button class="save btn btn-mini btn-primary form-btn form-spacer">save</button>
</form>

Let's make a few changes to router and wire up a route to our Add Project button. routes now includes a route called add, which calls a method called add. We include an add method that calls projectListView...

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