By using BackboneREST on the server and BackboneORM's JSON rendering DSL, you can save time in defining JSON APIs.

Supported frameworks:

• Express
• restify

Examples (CoffeeScript)

Backbone = require 'backbone'
RestController = require 'backbone-rest'
ensureLoggedIn = require 'connect-ensure-login'

customAuthorization = (req, res, next) ->
  unless req.user.canAccessTask(req)
    return res.status(401).send('you cannot access this task')
  next()

new RestController(app, {
  auth: [ensureLoggedIn('/login'), customAuthorization]
  model_type: Task
  route: '/tasks'
})

Examples (JavaScript)

var Backbone = require('backbone');
var RestController = require('backbone-rest');
var ensureLoggedIn = require('connect-ensure-login');

var customAuthorization = function(req, res, next) {
  if (!req.user.canAccessTask(req)) {
    return res.status(401).send('you cannot access this task');
  }
  return next();
};

new RestController(app, {
  auth: [ensureLoggedIn('/login'), customAuthorization],
  model_type: Task,
  route: '/tasks'
});

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For Contributors

To build the library for Node.js:

$ gulp build

Please run tests before submitting a pull request:

$ gulp test --quick

and eventually all tests:

$ npm test

Test Variants

You can run the following fine-grained tests to resolve problems with specific application frameworks

$ gulp test-express3
$ gulp test-express4
$ gulp test-restify