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This demo was written to illustrate how authentication can be added to multi-user app built on Backbone.js and Node.

• Underscore.js - A utility-belt library for JavaScript without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects.
• Backbone.js - Gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.
• jQuery - A fast, concise, library that simplifies how to traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add AJAX.
• node.js - Event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8.
• Express - High performance, high class web development for node.js.
• Jade - High performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for node.js.
• Stylus - Expressive, dynamic, robust CSS for node.js
• Mongoose - A MongoDB object modeling tool designed to work in an asynchronous environment.
• MongoDB - A scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database.
• Passport - Simple, unobtrusive authentication for Node.js.
• Timeago - jQuery plugin for automatically updating fuzzy timestamps.

1. Install node.js.
2. Install MongoDB.
3. Start the MongoDB server from a terminal window:

$ mongod

4. Change the working directory to the project root:

$ cd <path to directory>

4. Install dependencies using the node package manger (npm):

$ sudo npm install

5. Start the server:

$ sudo npm start

6. Visit http://localhost:3000 in a web browser.

Based on Backbone MVC

Auth Based on Madhums's Node Demo

• Jeff Jenkins - Added Authentication Layer

Public Domain