node-express-boilerplate

node-express-boilerplate gives the developer a clean slate to start with while bundling enough useful features so as to remove all those redundant tasks that can derail a project before it even really gets started.

First of all, it is very easy to understand, allowing you to start using it right away. There is minimal need to dig around in files just to get a good idea of how things work. And if you don't like how the boiler plate is set up, just fork it and change it according to your own personal preferences.

Bundling socket.io and integrating with the express session store so data can be shared

Providing premade hooks to authenticate users via facebook/twitter/github

An assetmanager that concatenates/mangles/compresses your CSS/JS assets to be as small and fast to deliver as possible, as well as cache busting using MD5 hashes

Auto updates of the browser (inline/refresh) as soon as CSS/JS/template-files are changed in order to remove all those annoying “save, tab, refresh” repetitions

Notifications to your computer/mobile phone on certain user actions

Sane defaults in regards to productions/development environments

Logs errors to Airbrakeapp.com in order to track any errors users are encountering

Auto matching of urls to templates without having to define a specific route (such as, visiting /file-name/ tries to serve file-name.ejs and fallbacks to index.ejs - this is helpful for quick static info pages)

git clone https://github.com/mape/node-express-boilerplate myproject

cd myproject

npm install

cp siteConfig.sample.js siteConfig.js

mate siteConfig.js # update config for your use case

nodemon server.js

First on node machine

ssh node@yourname.no.de

pkgin update; pkgin install redis

svccfg import /opt/local/share/smf/manifest/redis.xml

svcadm enable redis

Then on local machine

git clone https://github.com/mape/node-express-boilerplate myproject

cd myproject

cp siteConfig.sample.js siteConfig.js

edit siteConfig.js settings

scp siteConfig.js node@yourname.no.de :~

git remote add joyent node@yourname.no.de :repo

git push joyent master

open http://yourname.no.de