This is a demo using Backbone JS to communicate with a RESTFUL book API.
The following fields represent a book:
- a unique ID;
- a required title;
- a required author;
- an optional format.
This application does not take into account any "types" of the above fields, but it is standard for the ID to be a numerically increasing integer; the rest should be strings allowed to be at least 255 characters.
The application uses a crude for of "long polling" when on the "#list" page to help
the list stay up to date. Specifically, a timer using setInterval is set for
25-35 seconds (at random) after which a further request will be made to the
server.
Any server that conforms to a RESTFUL server as specified by Backbone JS may be used.
This happens to work well with:
The fields expected are:
id(not required for create)title(required)author(required)format(optional)
The server SHOULD validate for required fields.
Change the SERVICE_URL value in the webpack.config.js.
The value in the outer quotes will be substituted verbatim into the code, so
to use http://www.books_api.com use '"http://www.books_api.com"' or
"'http://www.books_api.com/'".
When deploying to a web server, any request must be resolved to the index.html or
the non-hash based router will not work; a sample .htaccess is:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule . index.html
- Write tests;
- Handle backend errors more gracefully
- Currently, some backend errors are simply serialised to the user (so they say technically valid but user unfriendly things)
- Close the stack collapse on route change in mobile/small screen mode.
Copyright 2020 David S. Lloyd <jwickentower [at] gmail.com>.
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