Advanced Express Web Application Development

Feature: Edit a project

Let's add an edit project form for our feature Edit a project. It consists of a text box for the project name a save and cancel button. Clicking on save will PUT the project to our Express server; clicking on cancel closes the form. We will use the same handlebars template we used for adding a project. In order to make RepositoryListView editable, we will need to introduce the concept of an edit state. We have called editMode.

Let's make some changes to projectView. We start by adding a new event edit to the events hash, which calls an edit function. We change our repository method by passing a new arg.editMode to event_aggregator, which will inform our RepositoryListView that it is in edit mode.

The edit method, which displays ...