/node-catapult

A rapid project starter that includes Node, Express, Browserify, and Mithril.

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Node Catapult

A boilerplate starter project that includes Node, Express, Browserify, and Mithril:

  • Minimal - Understand everything.
  • Efficient - Great defaults for development and production.
  • Rapid - Get started immediately.

Getting Started

$ git clone https://github.com/mindeavor/node-catapult my-project
$ cd my-project
$ npm install
$ npm start

Now visit localhost:4000

Running the Tests

There is a basic test framework in your test/ folder. To run the tests, simply run npm test.

Jump-starting your App

Check the wiki for snippets to jump-start your app, including:

  • Support for SASS and Babel
  • Express cookie sessions
  • Postgres and knex.js
  • A functional-programming-based "ORM" pattern for your database models

Browserify Middleware

The most notable part of this app is browserify-middleware. Great node packages are exceedingly rare – this is one of those packages.