enhanced mean stack

.gitignore

@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 public/
 node_modules/
 bower_components/
+package-lock.json

Gruntfile.js

@@ -89,10 +89,9 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
         copy: {
             main: {
                 files: [
-                    { expand: true, cwd: 'resources/assets/fonts', src: ['**'], dest: 'public/assets/fonts' },
-                    { expand: true, cwd: 'bower_components/font-awesome/fonts', src: ['**'], dest: 'public/assets/fonts' },
-                    { expand: true, cwd: 'bower_components/bootstrap/dist', src: ['**'], dest: 'public/assets/bootstrap' },
-                    { expand: true, flatten: true, cwd: 'bower_components/', src: ['**/*.min.js', '**/*.min.js.map'], dest: 'public/assets/js', filter: 'isFile' }
+                  { expand: true, cwd: 'resources/assets/fonts', src: ['**'], dest: 'public/assets/fonts' },
+                  { expand: true, cwd: 'bower_components/font-awesome/fonts', src: ['**'], dest: 'public/assets/fonts' },
+                  { expand: true, cwd: 'bower_components/bootstrap/dist', src: ['**'], dest: 'public/assets/bootstrap' }
                 ]
             }
         }
@@ -103,5 +102,6 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
     grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch');
     grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-sass');
     grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-copy');
-    grunt.registerTask('default', ['browserify', 'uglify', 'sass', 'copy', 'watch']);
+    grunt.registerTask('default', ['browserify', 'sass', 'copy', 'watch']);
+    grunt.registerTask('prod', ['browserify', 'uglify', 'sass', 'copy', 'watch']);
 };

app.js

@@ -1,22 +1,44 @@
 'use strict';
 
 var express = require('express'),
+    ENV = require('node-env-file')(__dirname + '/.env'), // Load .env in the root directory of the this project
     app = express();
 
-// Load environment properties from a .env file for local development
-require('dotenv').load({ silent: true });
+// Get environment properties from a .env file for local development
+app.ENV = ENV;
+// Get port in .env or else use default port `3000`
+app.ENV.NODE_PORT = app.ENV.NODE_PORT || 3000;
 
-// Views
+// If the development is for testing purpose or development. Use 'local'
+if (app.ENV.NODE_DEVELOPMENT === 'local') {
+    app.ENV.NODE_URL += ':' + app.ENV.NODE_PORT;
+}
+
+// Gzip compression
+require('./config/lib/compress')(app);
+
+// Libraries for client-side
+app.use('/bower_components', express.static(__dirname + '/bower_components'));
+// Assets
 app.use('/public', express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
+// HTML Files
 app.use('/views', express.static(__dirname + '/resources/views'));
 
+// Helpers that can be use globally in the server
 require('./config/lib/helpers');
+// This library uses req.body for requests like POST method, etc.
 require('./config/lib/body-parser')(app);
+// This library uses for security purposes like session, crsf, passport, and helmet.
 require('./config/lib/middleware')(app);
+// Set csrf token in cookie
 require('./config/lib/csrf')(app);
+// Centralized error handler
 require('./config/lib/handler')(app);
+// Database configuration
 require('./config/lib/mongoose')(app);
+// Set of routes in an application
 require('./config/lib/routes')(app);
+// Passport configuration
 require('./config/lib/passport')(app);
 
 module.exports = app;

config/lib/compress.js

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+'use strict';
+
+var compression = require('compression');
+
+module.exports = function (app) {
+    /* GZIP Compression */
+    app.use(compression({ filter: shouldCompress }));
+};
+
+function shouldCompress(req, res) {
+    if (req.headers['x-no-compression']) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    return compression.filter(req, res);
+}

config/lib/passport.js

@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ module.exports = function (app) {
     }, function (email, password, done) {
         User.findOne({ email: email }, function (err, user) {
             if (err) { return done(err); }
-            if ( ! user) { return done(null, false); }
-            if ( ! user.verifyPassword(password)) { return done(null, false); }
+            if (!user) { return done(null, false); }
+            if (!user.verifyPassword(password)) { return done(null, false); }
             return done(null, user);
         });
     }));

package.json

@@ -13,16 +13,19 @@
   ],
   "dependencies": {
     "body-parser": "^1.15.2",
+    "compression": "^1.6.2",
     "cookie-parser": "^1.4.3",
     "csurf": "^1.9.0",
-    "dotenv": "^2.0.0",
     "express": "^4.14.0",
     "express-session": "^1.14.2",
     "helmet": "^3.1.0",
     "method-override": "^2.3.7",
     "mongoose": "^4.7.0",
+    "mongoose-paginate": "^5.0.3",
+    "node-env-file": "^0.1.8",
     "passport": "^0.3.2",
     "passport-local": "^1.0.0",
+    "request": "^2.81.0",
     "socket.io": "^1.7.1",
     "tmj-passport": "^1.0.0"
   },

server.js

@@ -9,5 +9,6 @@ io.on('connection', function(socket) {
     // TODO: Socket
 });
 
-server.listen(port);
-console.log('Node development server started on ' + process.env.NODE_URL + ':' + port + '/');
+server.listen(port, function () {
+    console.log('Node development server started on ' + app.ENV.NODE_URL);
+});