Advanced Express Web Application Development

Feature: List commits

Let's add a list of commits for the feature List Commits. Each item in the list consists of a commit message, project name, a date, and the committer's username. The following is a HTML template ./templates/commits.hbs for a commit item:

  <a class="pull-left" href="#">
    <img class="media-object" src="{{avatar_url}}"   
      style="width:64px; height:64px">
  </a>
  <div class="media-body">
    <h4 class="media-heading">{{message}}</h4>
    <small>{{repository}}</small>
    <small>{{ago}}</small>
    <br/><small>{{login}}</small>
  </div>

Let's implement our Commit model. We define a function, Commit, which extends the Backbone Model type, and we include a hash of default values for the properties in our model.

Vision.Commit = Backbone.Model.extend({ defaults: ...