This is an extension of the Todos app included in the Backbone.js repository, by Jérôme Gravel-Niquet.

The App demonstrates how to integrate several technologies together beyond what is done in the original, and gives an idea of how to put together a full stack app.

• Backbone.js - Client side framework.
• Require.js - Async resource loading.
• Flask - A simple python webapp to provide a REST interface.
• MongoDB - Persistance for the client app.

The markup for the client app has also been moved server side, and is fetched as needed via jQuery.ajax.

The app runs with a single MongoDB node, but scripts are provided to show how a replicated setup works as well.

Setup:

virtualenv env --no-site-packages
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
mkdir data
mongod --dbpath=data/ --fork --logpath=data/mongod.log
python app/server.py
http://localhost:5000/

Backlog:

• require.js optimizer
• client side automated tests with jasmine
• serving client side assets from CDN