delorenj / elleol-nodejs

A simple demo app in node.js using express, mongoose, mongodb, stylus and jade for beignners

Blog post: Breaking down app.js file - nodejs, express, mongoose

node.js application illustrating various features used in everyday web development, with a fine touch of best practices. The demo app is a blog application where users (signing up using facebook) can create an article, delete an article and comment on an article.

Install Steps

• Install mongodb
• Install node.js

    $ curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
    $ git clone git://github.com/qed42/nodejs-express-mongoose-demo.git noobjs
    $ cd noobjs
    $ npm install
    $ node app.js

• http://localhost:3000/

Changelog

• version 2.0 (August 29, 2011)
• version 1.0 (March 05, 2011)

Todo demos

• MVC architecture using express
• Custom error handling in express
• Routing in express
• CURD operations using mongoose orm and mongodb
• Use of stylus
• dbref and populate Populate - DBRef-like behavior
• use of flash variables (displaying messaages like "updated successfully" etc)
• dynamic helpers (use of commonjs date formatting library). Thanks to commonjs-date-formatting
• user authentication
  • mongoose-auth
  • everyauth
  • Traditional username/password authentication
• pagination
• validations
• map-reduce
• embedded documents in mongoose
• route middlewares
• using of middlewares in mongoose

If you are looking a specific feature, please use the issue tracker. I will try to come up with a demo as earliest as I can. Please feel free to fork and send updates :)