/koa.js-setup

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Koa.js setup

  1. Check that you have node.js installed. $ node -v
  2. If you don't have node.js, go here and install node.js.
  3. Install n. $ npm install -g n.
  4. Install the latest node.js that's higher than 0.11.13. $ sudo n latest
  5. Install koa.js $ npm install koa
  6. Install gulp globally $ sudo npm install --global gulp
  7. Install mocha globally $ sudo npm install --global mocha

To run the server

New way using live-reloading

$ gulp server

Old way

$ node --harmony server.js

The server runs on port 5000, so go to http://localhost:5000/v0.

To run mocha tests

$ npm test

Using mongodb

In another terminal, run

$ mongod

Make sure this runs.

Jake tasks

Jake is what rake is to the nodejs world. Write tasks like dropping database and populating database in jakelib folder.

To dropping database

$ jake db:drop

To seed database with 100 fake users

$ jake db:seed

More on jake.

Project dir structure

To get this cool thing,

$ brew install tree
$ tree -I node_modules

.
├── Procfile
├── README.md
├── gulpfile.js
├── index.js
├── jakelib
│   └── database.jake
├── lib
│   ├── config
│   │   ├── application.js
│   │   └── config.js
│   └── db
│       └── mongo.js
├── package.json
└── test
├── lib
│   ├── config
│   │   └── config.js
│   └── server.js
└── test.conf.js

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