NEMB Project Template

This is a project template for a Node.js web application. Please note that this project is not yet finished. This message will no longer appear when the project is ready for development and production use.

Tech List

• Node.js
• Express.js Web Framework
• MongoDB (with Mongoose)
• Backbone.js (with Marionette)
• Gulp
• CoffeeScript
• Bower Package Manager
• Handlebars.js
• LESS CSS
• Bootstrap

This is everything you need to get started working on a cool Node.js web app! Everything from the project config files to the folder structure is entirely handled for you!

Just note, when going into production with a project based on this template, you should probably remove the "README.md" from every sub-directory.

Building with Gulp

Just running gulp will run all of the scripts below.

Function: VendorScriptsConcat gulp vendorscriptsconcat

• You can change the vendor sources by adding individual sources or entire folders (with *) to the vendscriptsources array towards the top of the document.

• This function will concatenate each of the sources to one document, save that to /public/js/vendor.js and uglify that document which is saved to /public/js/vendor.min.js

Function: ScriptsCoffee gulp scriptscoffee

• Will gather all files located at /front_components/coffee/
• Converts them to JS, concatenate them to the file primary.js
• Uglifies them and saves to primary.min.js

Function: CSSLess gulp cssless

• Grabs every LESS file located at /front_components/less/
• Converts to CSS, concatenates to style.css
• Minifies CSS and saves to style.min.css

More functions coming for minifying images and JSHint.