This is a simple Backbone.js app. I have been wanting to build an app using Backbone.js for some time and finally got around to it.
Also took the opportunity to write the JS code using CoffeeScript, and it turned out well.
I like the "automatic" mapping of models/collections to REST methods, I found this to be a very intuitive. And using Underscore.js templates for views was nice and fast.
To play around with this you need Node.js installed. Then install dependencies using NPM:
npm install -g coffeescript
npm install
To run the app:
./main.coffee or coffee main.coffee
The app will start on port 3000 by default, you can change this however:
PORT=3001 ./main.coffee or PORT=3001 coffee main.coffee