Generator for Requirejs, Grunt and Backbone

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Yeoman generators for scaffolding a lightweight and simple Backbone with AMD support (requirejs) which also includes grunt tasks for minifications and optimization. This generator is mainly collections of the grunt and workflows to scaffold :

• Front-end site/webapp generator
• Backbone library/API module generator
• Unit test generator with Karma & Jasmine

Features

• [x] Multi purpose Requirejs(AMD),Grunt scripts and Backbone based application generators.
• [x] Bulding single deployable API module
• [x] Backbone with AMD (requirejs) supports
• [x] HTML5 template with modernizr
• [x] Less supports
• [x] Requirejs optimization script
• [x] Assets optimization (HTML, Javascript and CSS) and aggregation
• [x] Almond replacement on requirejs optimization
• [x] Unit test integrations (karma & jasmine support)

Getting Started

Make sure you have Yeoman installed :

$ npm install -g yo

Then install rgb generators :

$ npm install -g generator-rgb

You can also just link them for local installation:

$ npm link

OK, now we ready to start creating some apps. First, let's create directory and run generators from the directory :

$ mkdir newApp && cd $_
$ yo rgb 

Creating First application

Running unit test

# Run all unit test
$ npm test

# With individual unit test
$ npm test -- -file=<specFile>

# Creating spec file
$ yo rgb
---> choose New Spec Test

Other npm tasks available

For development:

$ npm start

For building the optimized scripts:

$ npm run build
OR
$ grunt build

For building the site/app as deployable Bower library or standalone:

$ npm run build_lib
OR
$ grunt build:lib

For running in production mode:

$ npm run start_live
OR
$ grunt connect:live

License

MIT