valandro / node-web-app

A simple node web server to run a static application using SASS, EJS and Express Js.

Node Web App

It's a simple NodeJS Web app with Babel, Gulp, Sass and Express.

What is Babel?

Babel is a toolchain that is mainly used to convert ECMAScript 2015+ code into a backwards compatible version of JavaScript in current and older browsers or environments. Here are the main things Babel can do for you:

• Transform syntax
• Polyfill features that are missing in your target environment (through @babel/polyfill)
• Source code transformations (codemods)
• And more! (check out these videos for inspiration)

What is Gulp?

It is a task runner built on Node.js and npm, used for automation of time-consuming and repetitive tasks involved in web development like minification, concatenation, cache busting, unit testing, linting, optimization, etc.

What is Express?

Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications.

Scripts

• npm run start : Run the application on bin/dev using babel-register
• npm run build : Use babel to compile the server/ into dist/

Depedencies

  "dependencies": {
    "express": "^4.16.3",
    "gulp-uglifycss": "^1.1.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "babel-cli": "^6.26.0",
    "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.24.1",
    "babel-preset-stage-2": "^6.24.1",
    "babel-register": "^6.26.0",
    "gulp": "^4.0.0",
    "gulp-sass": "^4.0.1",
    "nodemon": "^1.18.4"
  }

License

MIT License - see the LICENSE.md for more details.