Este

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Robust and comfortable dev stack for isomorphic web apps. Mobile first, offline first, frontend first.

Demos

TodoMVC, repo Just plain TodoMVC example.
Songary, repo Real app in development. Many interesting patterns to see.

Build with

Google Closure
Facebook React
expressjs
este-library (only router stuff and some React and Flux helpers)
polymer-gestures

JavaScript

Plain old JavaScript, of course.
React JSX - Don't use harmony class syntax yet please.
CoffeeScript (compatible with Closure Compiler) - Why CoffeeScript? Isn't ES6 better? Maybe, but CoffeeScript works well for years already.

Styles

Stylus is recommended, sure you can use LESS or anything else.

Tools

Well tuned gulp dev stack
Super fast file-watcher
Awesome DI Container
Brilliant Closure Compiler
TDD ready Mocha

Prerequisites

Java 1.7+ and Node.js are required.

npm install -g gulp
npm install -g bower

For Windows users: strongloop.com/strongblog/install-node-js-windows. Install everything except StrongLoop.

Getting Started

Create Este App

git clone https://github.com/steida/este.git este-app
cd este-app
npm install
bower install

Start Development

run gulp
point your browser to localhost:8000
build something beautiful

Usage

Start development. Build app and run development stack.

gulp

Production mode. Styles are minified and scripts are compiled.

gulp --production or gulp -p

Only build. Useful for continuous integration.

gulp build or gulp build --production

Run development stack. Useful to skip building phase.

gulp run or gulp run --production

Debug makes compiled scripts readable.

gulp build --production=debug

Recommended Editor: Atom.io

Recommended settings.

Error: EMFILE Issue

OSX has default limit for opened files set to 256. Fix it with ulimit -n 10000

Stay Tuned

Future

Integrate ES6, definitely. Add and decribe more functional patterns, like Flux or CSP. More mobile/offline awareness.

License

Licensed under the MIT license.

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