ablasco/nodejs-sample

Sample project with node.js, express, jade and jquery+ajax

This is just a sample app to play with:

• node.js
• express as web server
• mongoose as NoSQL ODM
• jade as view templating engine
• stylus as CSS engine
• jQuery and jQueryUI as client side technology

Disclaimer

This IS NOT intended to be a catalogue of best practices. This is just a very simple sample plenty of room for improvement. This modifications are inspired by following posts:

• Tutorial node.js + express + jquery (IV): Conclusiones y próximos pasos
• Mostrar avisos y errores con jQuery UI

TO BE IMPROVED

• Persistence. Remove mocks and try MongoDB+mongoose or other NoSQL database.
• Better interface. Integrate some free template and improve it with "jQuery UI" widgets.
• Complete CRUD. Implement missing features.
• Session control. Implement things like authentication, autorisation, etc., and mantain state via cookies.
• Unit tests. Maybe we could try "expresso".
• Better client architecture. Playing a bit with client frameworks to improve databinding and validation (Knockout, Backbone, etc).