node-plate
Boilerplate. For Node.js projects.
I start a fair few Node.js projects, and the boilerplate stage is always annoying. Don't get me wrong, tools like Yeoman, npm, Bower, Grunt et al alleviate a lot of this. But this boilerplate was more for quite specific things I use over and over - like Passport.js method set up, or reusable components like image uploading. It's probably not something others will find that useful, as it's quite specific to my needs / tastes.
Routing
Router
A little router I built. It expects to be handed a routes file of some description.
Routes
This router implementation allows the use of 'route groups', and this refers to the router instance.
It allows route setup like this:
this.get('/route', fn);
// This one would route to /api/v1/users
this.routeGroup('/api/v1/', function(group) {
group.get('users', fn);
});
Route groups can be infinitely nested.
Helpers
Slugs
Contains a slugify function to allow the conversion of titles, names etc to slugs.
slugify('Sexy title', fn)
.then(function(slug) {
console.log(slug); // sexy-title
});
fn is just expected to be a function that can be called (and that returns a promise) to see if an item with that slug already exists. It'll recursively call this function, adding a counter on the end of the slug, until a unique one is found.
Uploads
Currently has a function for uploading to the filesystem. Although this really needs to be updated to not use Express' Multipart middleware.
Middleware
Has some basic Express middleware setup, and some authentication setup that uses Passport.js.