Cordova Backbone boilerplate

This is a project template for Cordova projects with Backbone. It has a simple build system with Grunt and uses Backbone, jQuery, underscore, Sass, Mocha and Chai.

Installation

Clone the repository and install required dependencies:

% npm install

To use the Grunt CLI you need to install it globally:

% npm install -g grunt-cli

Now you can serve the project on a local development server for browser development:

% grunt serve

Tasks

You can use these Grunt tasks:

• serve: build the project, watch for changes and serve on a local web server for local browser development. Live Reload is enabled.
• build: prepare all files in ./www, including concatenated javascripts, compiled Sass stylesheets, optimised images and any static HTML files. Only changed files are updated. Before all this, runs jshint.
• rebuild: same as build but runs clean first.
• clean: removes the entire output directory.
• jshint: check for linting errors in javascript source files.

NPM provides the following tasks:

• test: run the Mocha test suite (from ./test)

Finally, you can use any Cordova commands to run or emulate the project. See cordova -h for more information.