baselayer: A Web Application Template

About

Tornado-based, customizable web application template.

Edit public/index.html, add your own JavaScript code to public/scripts, add handlers for your routes to webapp/handlers, and watch your app fly!

Running the app locally

1. Install the following dependencies:

• supervisor
• nginx
• npm

MacOS

Using Homebrew:

brew install supervisor nginx node

Linux

On Debian or Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install nginx supervisor npm nodejs-legacy

2. Install Python and npm dependencies: make dependencies
3. Run make to start the server, and navigate to localhost:7000.

Dev Tips

Debugging:

• Run make log to watch log output
• Run make debug to start webserver in debug mode
• Run make attach to attach to output of webserver, e.g. for use with pdb.set_trace()