Opinionated ExpressJS Boilerplate

A good way to start your NodeJS project. Additional flavours available under different branches. Read this awesome blog post that covers what’s inside.

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Usage:

Downloading and updating

It’s easier to keep your project up to date if you do the following:

git remote add parent [email protected]:suprMax/express-boilerplate.git

and then you can just:

git pull parent master && git push

Development:

1. Install node:

   brew install node

2. Install dependencies:

   sudo npm install -g coffee-script nodemon forever bower grunt-cli && cake install

3. Edit your hosts (optional):

   vim /private/etc/hosts

   add at the bottom

   127.0.0.1 express.dev

4. Start server:

   cake dev

   and navigate your browser to http://express.dev:3000/ or http://localhost:3000/

5. ???

6. PROFIT

Vendor dependencies management:

cake install

Assets management:

You shouldn’t normally care about that, as Cake takes care of it for you.

Compile assets for production:

grunt build

Just clean up previously created mess:

grunt clean

Build assets for development once

grunt

Watch for assets changes

grunt watch

Deployment:

Make sure you have Cakefile configuration updated, otherwise it won’t work.

cake deploy

Just push changes to the server without restarting and recompiling:

cake push