Programming in CoffeeScript

11. Example: Todo List Part 2 (Client-side w/ jQuery)

In Chapter 10, “Example: Todo List Part 1 (Server-side),” we had just finished writing the server-side components needed for us to write a todo list application. In this chapter we will write a front end for that application that will run in a browser. We’re going to do this using some pretty fun technology, such as Bootstrap¹ from Twitter² and jQuery.

Priming the HTML with Twitter Bootstrap

Let’s start by setting up some basic styles and HTML for our application. To help get our CSS and styling off to a good start, we are going to use the Bootstrap project from Twitter. Bootstrap is a simple set of CSS and JavaScript files to help you, well, bootstrap your application. It gives you a simple ...