generator-sudexpress

An updated version of the Galvanize Express Generator made by Michael Herman.

Yeoman generator for a Node/Express boilerplate setup with PostgreSQL, using the following modules (for more details look at the package.json in app/templates):

• Bluebird for Promises
• Mocha for testing, chai for assertions, and chai-http for server-side testing
• knex for PostgreSQL queries, supported by pg
• Swig for templating
• connect-flash for easy messaging to users
• bcrypt for salt/hashing secure information like passwords
• Passport for authentication, with the LocalStrategy already setup.
• cookie-parser and cookie-sessions for powerful cookies.

It uses Gulp for local development and builds. Builds use:

• Browserify for client-side javascript
• Babel (gulp) for ES6 compatibility
• JSHint for linting
• Browser-sync for local development

On the client-side, it includes generic Bootstrap and jQuery.

Quick Start

1. Install Yeoman (if necessary) - npm install -g yo
2. Install the generator - npm install -g generator-sudexpress
3. Run - yo sudexpress
4. Install modules - npm install
5. Fire up the server - gulp (or create a build - gulp build)
6. In .env, customize your environment variables, (dev and production databases, cookie secrets, session secret) then add .env to .gitignore.