travisjgood / my-morning-coffee

A node.js scaffold: coffeescript based, bootstrap, express, less, jade, and ready to deploy on CloudFoundry.

My Morning Coffee

Scaffolding for basic node.js app that is ready to deploy on a CloudFoundry service like AppFog.

This project consists of the following components.

• CoffeeScript as the programming language.
• Locomotive.js (based on Express.js)
  • The version of Locomotive is a forked version, whcih supports CoffeeScript
  • Less for CSS
  • Jade for templates
• Bootstrap for look and feel (works well with Less)
• Bootswatch for Boostrap themes
• Mongoose for MongoDB ORM

Uses

• Bootstrap a web application
• Great for hackathons, just checkout the code and you're ready to go

Starting

To run the app simply run the following command:

$ node start

The start.js file will kick off the CoffeeScript app.

Deployment

Here are deployment instructions for various Platform as a Service environments.

AppFog (Cloud Foundry based)

First time:

$ gem install af
$ af login
$ af push

Subsequent updates:

$ af update <ap-name>

Roadmap

• Twitter authentication
• Facebook authentication

Notes

Generated the express app using the following command line:

express --sessions --css less my-morning-coffee

Release Notes

0.2.0

• Switched from express to a branched version of Locomotive.js (includes CoffeeScript support)
• Added mongoose and an example of using the models directory