brianyang / form5-node-express-mongoose-coffeescript

A Node.js skeleton using Express, Mongoose and Coffeescript.

Node base with Express, Mongoose, and CoffeeScript

skeleton with methods

• returning json
• proxy APIs

• implement some form of OAuth

details

• Object modeling for MongoDB using Mongoose.
• Passport.js for user authentication.
• Twitter Bootstrap, to jumpstart your UI development.
• connect-assets for serving CSS, Javascript and images to the client supporting Coffeescript and LESS on the fly.
• connect-flash for helpful error/notice messages.
• connect-mongo for persistent session storage.
• Coffeescript linting using Grunt.
• node-dev, an awesome development tool for Node.js that automatically restarts your node process when a script is modified. It also has useful growl notifications:

File structure

-app/
  |--controllers/
  |--models/
  |--views/
  |__helpers/ (template helper functions)
-config/
  |--routes.coffee
  |--environment.coffee
  |--passport.coffee (auth config)
  |--express.coffee (express.js config)
  |--middlewares/ (custom middlewares)
-assets/ (Client side assets)
  |--css/ (supports LESS)
  |--js/ (supports Coffescript)
  |--img/
-bin/
  |__devserver (Shell script for firing up node-dev)
--server.js