express-starter

A very simple boilerplate to get express.js projects off the ground quickly.

Features:

• Uses Mustache for templating (via Consolidate.js)
• Uses assets folder to serve static files to a folder at the root.
  • /assets/css/file.css would be served to htp://localhost:port/css/file.css
• Logs 404 errors to the console (Disable this for production environments.)
• Logs all other errors to the console. (You may or may not want to disable this in production.)
• Skeleton CSS
• LESS setup
• Minification of assets
  • Enabled for LESS
  • Other assets not yet implemented

Requirements

npm install

The above command should grab all the dependencies for you.

However, the boilerplate currently uses these packages:

• node.js
• express.js
• consolidate.js
• express-less.js
• mustache

Configure

Via NPM:

cd myNewProject
npm install express-starter

From repo:

git clone https://github.com/shakna-israel/express-starter.git
cd express-starter
npm install

The above set of commands will grab you the repository, and install all the dependencies.

Folder Structure

The default file and folder structure is as follows:

• README.md
• app.js
• package.json
• assets
  • css
    • Any CSS Files
  • img
    • Any Image Files
  • js
    • Any Client-side JS files
  • less
    • skeleton.less
• views
  • index.html
  • error.html
  • partials
    • head.html

The rendered file structure would be similar to:

• /
• /css/skeleton.css
• /img/someImageFile.png
• /js/someClientJS.js

Run

Running the app is as simple as:

node app.js