laurenreeder / express-boilerplate

Boilerplate for NodeJS, Express, Eco, Bootstrap, and Redis

The Stack

• Node v0.8.8
• Express v3.x
• CoffeeScript v1.3.3
• Eco v1.1.x
• Connect Assets v2.2.1

Requirements

• NodeJs
• CoffeeScript
• Mocha

Included Packages

Via npm: (npm install)

• Express
• Eco
• connect-assets
• Mocha
• Should.Js

Usage

Local

To build source files and run the server (with automatic reloading on changes) just run:

cake go

Heroku

To deploy to heroku (you will need a verified heroku account for redistogo):

heroku create
[Optional] heroku addons:add redistogo:nano
git push heroku master
heroku open

Thanks to

• Jeremy Ashkenas for creating coffee-script
• TJ Holowaychuk for creating express
• express-coffee upon which this is based.