express-mvc-h5bp

Boilerplate for Express using Express and html5 boilerplate.

##Stack This Boilerplate uses :

• Backend -
  • Framework - Express
  • Database - MongoDB
  • ODM - Mongoose.js
  • Templating - Handlebars
  • Task Runner - Gulp
• Frontend -
  • CSS Preprocessor - SCSS
  • ES6 Preprocessor - Babel
  • Libraries -
    • JQuery (Google CDN)
    • Bootstrap (Bootstrap CDN)
    • Modernizr
    • Normalize.css

##Quick Start

• Clone this repository
• Run npm install
• Add your Database URL in config/database.js
• Replace public/favicon.ico (optional)
• Change UA-XXXXX-X in views/layout.hbs to your site's ID (optional)
• Run npm start to run the server in port 3000

##Guide

• Files -
  • Place SCSS files in resources/scss
  • Place client-side js in resources/scripts
  • Place unmodified static HTML files in resources/html
• Layout -
  • The views/layout takes a meta object with title, description, keyword and file as properties
  • file property is the name of the CSS and JS file to be included (Assumes that the name of the Template, CSS and JS Files are the same)

##Gulp Tasks

Task	Description
images	minifies all the images in public/img
js	transpiles all js files in resources/js from es6 to es5, uglifies and places it in public/js
css	transpiles scss files in resources/scss to css, autoprefixes them, minifies them and places them in public/css
html	minifies html files in resources/html and places them in public/
build	runs html, js, css and images
watch	watches html, css and js files
default	runs build and watch

##License The code is available under the MIT license.