twilson63/express-coffee

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Express Coffee Template 9 (1.9.0) This is a Node Express CoffeeScript Stack Template It comes ready to go with connect-assets that give you the option to use coffee-script and stylus for the client side. Technologies This is a template that can be used to create nodejs applications using Node v4.2.x Express v4.13.x CoffeeScript v1.10.x Jade v1.11.0 Stylus v0.52.x bootstrap-stylus 2.3.1 (not a npm module) Nib v1.1.x Connect Assets v2.5.x MongoDB / Mongoose 3.8.x Requirements NodeJs Express CoffeeScript Jade Stylus bootstrap-stylus Nib connect-assets Mocha Mongoose These will install with npm, just do npm install In your project directory. Install, Build, Run, Test, and Watch # Install nodejs and npm git clone http://github.com/twilson63/express-coffee.git [project-name] cd [project-name] npm install Install coffee-script, mocha and docco npm install coffee-script -g npm install mocha -g npm install docco -g Run cake dev Mocha and Request for testing mocha is an extremely powerful and easy to use testing framework see http://mochajs.org/ describe 'Sample test', -> it 'should be true', -> true.should.equal true to run mocha cake test Setup to deploy to heroku rm -rf .git git init echo 'node_modules' >> '.gitignore' git add . git commit -am "first commit" heroku create git push heroku master heroku open Thanks to Jeremy Ashkenas for creating coffee-script TJ Holowaychuk for creating express Miško Hevery for creating Jasmine-Node TJ Holowaychuk for creating mocha and should.js About express-coffee is a template or boiler-plate to get started writing express web applications in CoffeeScript. It comes ready to go with base setup for an Express Web App. It includes a Cakefile that lets you build, spec, and watch your coffeescript as you develop. You hack in the src folder and run cake build to build you server files, write your mocha in your test folder and run cake test or spec to run your test suite. Create your jade views in the views folder and put your public assets in the public folder. Enjoy your express-coffee License See LICENSE Contribute pull requests are welcome