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backbone-server

Implements an in-memory server for Backbone.js http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#Sync

This project is a teaching aid. It provides an out-of-the-box server that Backbone.js models can sync with.

It uses the CORS headers to allow cross-origin requests.

Usage

Clone the repository
Install node.js
Install the dependencies with npm install
Start the server with node rasterver.js
Configure your models / collections with urls in the form http://localhost:3002/[collectionname]

Examples

Create a new 'people' resource

curl -vX POST [{"name":"X POST http://withouttheloop.com:3002/people -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"name":"Liam", "age": 72}'

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< X-Powered-By: Express
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET,PUT,POST,DELETE
< Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type
< Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
< Content-Length: 8
< Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:19:00 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< 
* Connection #0 to host withouttheloop.com left intact
* Closing connection #0
{"id":0}

Read the collection

curl -v http://withouttheloop.com:3002/people

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< X-Powered-By: Express
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET,PUT,POST,DELETE
< Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type
< Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
< Content-Length: 65
< Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:20:57 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< 
* Connection #0 to host withouttheloop.com left intact
* Closing connection #0
[{"name":"Liam","age":72,"id":0}

P.S.

For truly zero-config usage I run a hosted instance of backbone-server at http://withouttheloop.com:3002. Set your model's url to http://withouttheloop.com:3002/[some unique collection id] and it will work magically. I do occassionally restart the service so not recommended for production. ;)

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