Coffee Express Boilerplate

Coffee Express Boilerplate is a template that provides the base code for creating a server with CoffeeScript and Express. This package also sets up the pug (jade) view engine with some template views.

What's Included?

Aside from CoffeeScript and Express support, this package also sets up the following packages to help get you started:

• pug
• stylus
• nib
• connect-coffee-script

Getting Started

To get started using Coffee Express Boilerplate, you will need to run the following commands:

$ npm install -g coffee-script nodemon
$ git clone https://github.com/nerdenough/coffee-express-boilerplate.git
$ npm install

Once all the packages are installed, you can start the server by running npm start. This will start the server listening on port 3000 unless specified otherwise.

File Structure

The following tree illustrates how Coffee Express Boilerplate has setup your file structure. Not all folders have been created, but the file structure should explain where you should place your files (unless you choose to change the structure).

.
├── app
│   └── # front end coffeescript should be placed here
├── public
│   ├── css
│   │   └── # compiled stylesheets will be placed here
│   └── js
│   │   └── # compiled javascript will be placed here
├── stylus
│   └── # stylus files should be placed here
├── routes
│   └── index.coffee
├── views
│   ├── index
│   │   └── index.pug
│   ├── shared
│   │   ├── head.pug
│   │   └── layout.pug
│   └── error.pug
└── server.coffee

/app

The app directory should contain all of your front end CoffeeScript. These files will be compiled to /public/js when requested.

/public

Public is a directory should contain any files you want visible to the public, such as stylesheets, JavaScript and images.

/stylus

The stylus directory should hold all your .styl files. The server has been setup to compile the files from this directory into /public/css.

/routes

Routes should contain all your router specific files.

/views

Views should contain all of your pug views. The structure provided is just an example of how your views could be laid out.