Advanced Express Web Application Development

Feature: List repositories

Let's build the client for our feature List repositories. Each item in the list consists of a repository name, a short description, and a checkbox; which allows us to add or remove the repository from the project.

What follows is an HTML template ./templates/repositories.hbs for a repository item:

<li>
  <label class="checkbox inline">
  <input id="{{id}}" type="checkbox" {{enabled}} value="{{name}}"><h4 class="media-heading repoItem">{{name}}</h4>
  <small>{{description}}</small>
  </label>
</li>

Let's add a Repository model. We add a function Repository that extends the Backbone Model type and add a hash of default values for the four properties in our model. The enabled property signifies that a repository is included in the ...