Possible idea for chapters 3-5

In my review issue for chapter 3 I mentioned that it was very long. My only comment remaining for chapter 5 would be that we still repeat a lot of ground work in setting up the app, even if we do go through it at a good pace.

One way that we might address this is to restructure chapters 3 to 5 so that they present one long Todo app example.

Chapter 3 deals with setup, dependencies, models and the basics of collections. At the end it should have covered everything on those topics from current chapter 3 while building the relevant parts from the app. The index.html doesn't even contain the templates and the views and router aren't mentioned.

Chapter 4 is events, views and routers.

Chapter 5 is the sync API (starting with localStorage as in the TodoMVC implementation), the Underscore utility methods and the sync API. Then a brief example of creating a node/express/mongodb server to persist to instead of localStorage.

This is just an idea. Its a fairly big change at this late stage and I can't commit to doing it myself (my wife is due to give birth within the next three weeks!)