todomvc-express

TodoMVC with server-side rendering

Live demo at todomvc-express.herokuapp.com/ - might be asleep, wait 10 seconds. Does not permanently store todos; they disappear when the dyno goes to sleep.

Complete server-side rendering for TodoMVC using ExpressJS server and virtual-dom.

In fact, NO client side JavaScript is allowed using Content Security Policy setting in the page "meta" tag (view page source). You can disable JavaScript in your browser and the page will still work just fine.

Any new todo, or click leads to the form submission and new page rendering.

Use

You can clone this repo and start the server locally

npm start

The open localhost:3000 to play with the application. Local data is saved in todos.json. The Express server itself is defined in file src/app.js that you can reuse from other environments

Related

I have written a couple of modules that help with TodoMVC applications.

• virtual-todos - generates Virtual Dom from todos
• fake-todos to generate fake todo items
• todomvc-model is the model that keeps todo items and responds to outside events
• instant-vdom-todo - instant web app using ServiceWorker

Emit

The returned Express app is also an event emitter. Every data update it emits the updated todo list.

const app = require('todomvc-express')
app.on('todos', function (todos) {
  console.log('server has new %d todos', todos.length)
  // each todo object has {what, done, id} like this
  /*
    { what: 'new todo',
       done: false,
       id: '43e63255-5582-4f6f-85c2-dc2e85e44ffb' }
  */
})

Small print

Author: Gleb Bahmutov © 2016

• @bahmutov
• glebbahmutov.com
• blog

License: MIT - do anything with the code, but don't blame me if it does not work.

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Support: if you find any problems with this module, email / tweet / open issue on Github

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016 Gleb Bahmutov

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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