refactor complete

Cakefile

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ compileApp = () ->
         if not err?
             # Move the temp "concatenation.js" file to outputFile
             exec 'mv static/js/concatenation.js static/js/app.js', (err, stdOut, stdIn) ->
-                console.log 'Error compiling browser app' if err?
+                console.log ('Error compiling browser app: '  + err) if err?
                 console.log 'Compiled browser app' if not err?
 
 # Compile the templates

browser/app/views/app.coffee

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ views.App = Backbone.View.extend
         @channelWrapper = @$ '#channel'
 
         # Channel List
-        ChannelListView = use 'views.menu.Channels'
+        ChannelListView = use 'views.menu.channels.List'
         @channelListView = new ChannelListView
             el: (dom.find '#channel-list'),
             model: @channelList

browser/app/views/menu/channel.coffee

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+namespace 'views.menu'
+
+# Single channel's view in the list of channels
+views.menu.Channel = Backbone.View.extend
+
+    # Event hash
+    events: 
+        'click':      'makeActive'
+
+    # Initialize
+    initialize: () ->
+        @unread = 0
+
+        # Track active state
+        @model.bind 'change:active', () =>
+            if @model.get 'active'
+                do @hideMessageCount
+                $(@el).addClass 'active'
+            else 
+                $(@el).removeClass 'active'
+
+        # Track unread messages
+        @model.messageList.bind 'add', () =>
+            if not (@model.get 'active')
+                @unread++
+                do @showUnread
+
+    # Make our model active if it isn't already
+    makeActive: () ->
+        if not @model.get 'active'
+            @model.set active: true
+
+    # Hide the message counter, and reset
+    hideMessageCount: () ->
+        @unread = 0
+        @messageCountEl.text @unread        
+        do @messageCountEl.hide
+
+    # Update and show unread message count
+    showUnread: () ->
+        return if @model.get 'active'
+
+        @messageCountEl.text @unread
+        do @messageCountEl.show
+
+    # Render
+    render: () ->
+        # Replace our element with a rendered one
+        dom = $(Template::renderTemplate 'channelListChannel')
+        @el = dom
+        do @delegateEvents
+
+        nameEl = @el.find '.name'
+        nameEl.text @model.get 'name'
+
+        # Find and hide the message count, we'll show once there are messages
+        @messageCountEl = @el.find '.message-count'
+        do @hideMessageCount
+
+        this

browser/app/views/menu/channel/list.coffee

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+namespace 'views.menu.channels'
+
+# View for the channel list
+views.menu.channels.List = Backbone.View.extend
+
+    # Init
+    initialize: () ->
+        # @model.bind 'add', @render
+        @model.bind 'refresh', () =>
+            do @render
+
+    # Change conversation
+    changeConversation: (e) ->
+        do e.preventDefault
+
+        li = $(e.target).closest 'li'
+
+        # Remove active from all
+        all = @$ '.conversations li'
+        all.removeClass 'active'
+
+        # Add it to our target
+        li.addClass 'active'
+
+    render: () ->
+        dom = $(Template::renderTemplate 'channelList')
+
+        list = dom.find 'ul'
+
+        # Render each channel separately
+        @model.each (channel) ->
+
+            # Create the channel's view if it doesn't exist already
+            if not channel.view?
+                ChannelView = use 'views.menu.Channel'
+                channel.view = new ChannelView
+                    model: channel
+
+            # Render
+            do channel.view.render
+
+            # Append the rendered element to the list
+            list.append  channel.view.el
+
+        @el.html dom

irc.coffee

@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ socket.on 'connection', (client) ->
     sys.puts 'socket.io client connected'
 
     client.on 'message', (data) ->
-        if data.message is 'channelMessage'
-            ircClient.say data.channel, data.text
+        # if data.message is 'channelMessage'
+            # ircClient.say data.channel, data.text
 
     # Send the channel list
     client.send