A minimal nodejs app skeleton built with
- express
- gulp
- coffeescript
- nodemon
- ejs
- browserify
- less
- live-reload
Deliberately lightweight and client app framework free (apart from browserify) - Intended as a base to add your own preferred bits and pieces.
Setup:
git clone https://github.com/diffused/gulp-coffee-browserify-less-ejs.git
cd gulp-coffee-browserify-less-ejs
npm install
gulp
Gulp will build the server and client side apps, templates, assets, etc and watch and live-reload any changes.
Tweak the code in ./src and gulp will build it into ./app
Server side app:
'src/app/app.coffee'
# main entry. builds -> app/app.js
'src/app/views/*.ejs'
# ejs views builds -> app/views/*.ejs
'src/app/routes'
# add new routes. Follow the pattern in productsRoute.coffee if you want to have routes added dynamically
Client side app:
'src/client/*.ejs'
# builds -> app/public/*.ejs
'src/client/scripts/main.coffee`
# main browserified file. builds -> app/public/scripts/app.js
'src/client/stylesheets/main.less`
# main lesscss entry file. builds -> app/public/stylesheets/main.css
# bower installs into app/public/bower_components