Node Website In a Node Library Package

Overview

Just playing around with Node.js, for the sake of preparing for some related project work. This this first time I've made a web app with node; before this, I've only used it for Web APIs and console apps.

I began with the Express Generator, which created some of the file structure. It also generated some of the boilerplate files (e.g., ./bin/www, app.js... though I later refactored app.js).

The idea is to put an entire site, except for configuration, in a node package. It's a POC for something I'm doing at work. I don't expect anyone to actually use this.

Usage

• Create an empty folder.

• Run npm init. You can accept all defaults.

• Install node-web-lib.

• Add a .env file with the following contents to the folder:

  APP_NAME=MyGreatWebsite

• Add an index.js file with the following contents to the folder:

  const runsite = require('node-web-lib');
  runsite();

• Execute the following command:

  node index

• Browse the site at http://127.0.0.1:3000

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning.