This is an example project created for the "Creating Enriching Web Applications with Django and Backbone.js" webcast: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/e/3154

It demonstrates a basic REST API using Django and a JS client application using Backbone.

This project was written and tested using Python 3.3+. The Python dependencies are listed in the requirements.txt file. These can easily be installed with pip:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Using virtualenv is recommended.

The commits in the repo follow the creation of the API and client from start to finish. Branches have been created to note stopping points along the way. To see the project evolve throughout this process you should step through the branches in order.

1. Fresh Project
2. Read Only API (Diff)
3. Write API (Diff)
4. Template Layout (Diff)
5. File Listing (Diff)
6. File Delete (Diff)
7. File Upload (Diff)
8. Token Authentication (Diff)
9. Configuration (Diff)

The project content is released under the BSD License. See the LICENSE file for more details.