generator-nodestack

Yeoman generator for MEBN(MongoDB+Express+Backbone+Node) stack. Also setup Passport authentication strategies. Best suited for hackathons.

Getting Started

• Make sure you have yo installed on the latest version.

npm install -g yo

• To install generator-nodestack from npm, run:

npm install -g generator-nodestack

• Finally, initiate the generator:

yo nodestack

What do you get?

Scaffolds out a complete project directory structure for you:

.
├── app
│   ├── config
│   └── models
│   └── routes
│   └── src
├── app.js
├── .editorconfig
├── .gitattributes
├── .gitignore
├── .jshintrc
├── .travis.yml
├── bower.json
├── Gruntfile.js
├── karma.conf.js
├── package.json
├── public
│   ├── images
│   └── scripts
│       ├── main.js
│       └── collections
│       └── models
│       └── views
│   └── styles
│       ├── less
│   └── templates
└── test
│   ├── spec
│       ├── test.js
└── views
│   ├── helpers
│   └── layouts
│   └── partials

Here is how the directory structure has been laid out:

• The public directory is where all of our front-end code will reside and will be served from. Basically anything inside the public or views directories is visible from a browser, everything else is not.
• The core server file that will house the bulk of the node.js code (at least the boot-up code) will reside in a file called app.js.
• The app directory is where all of our back-end code will reside. These include databases, configurations, routes etc.

It also gives you the option of installing BootStrap, Browserify and Font-Awesome.

Also provided is the option of setting up authentication strategies using Passport.

You have the flexibility of adding local, google, facebook, twitter, linkedin and github strategies.

Deploying to Heroku

During the scaffold you are able to create Procfile and .env files on your target project. After that follow the steps below.

• Use the command grunt to generate the optimized files for your application.
• Set the environment variable NODE_ENV to production before pushing your modifications to Heroku.

License

MIT