An updated version of the Galvanize Express Generator made by Michael Herman.
Yeoman generator for a Node/Express boilerplate setup with PostgreSQL, using the following modules (for more details look at the package.json in app/templates):
- Bluebird for Promises
- Mocha for testing, chai for assertions, and chai-http for server-side testing
- knex for PostgreSQL queries, supported by pg
- Swig for templating
- connect-flash for easy messaging to users
- bcrypt for salt/hashing secure information like passwords
- Passport for authentication, with the LocalStrategy already setup.
- cookie-parser and cookie-sessions for powerful cookies.
It uses Gulp for local development and builds. Builds use:
- Browserify for client-side javascript
- Babel (gulp) for ES6 compatibility
- JSHint for linting
- Browser-sync for local development
On the client-side, it includes generic Bootstrap and jQuery.
- Install Yeoman (if necessary) -
npm install -g yo - Install the generator -
npm install -g generator-sudexpress - Run -
yo sudexpress - Install modules -
npm install - Fire up the server -
gulp(or create a build -gulp build) - In .env, customize your environment variables, (dev and production databases, cookie secrets, session secret) then add .env to .gitignore.