node-boilerplate

Structure for your non-trivial node.js project.

Quick Start

Develop

Linux/OSX running node v0.6.x, mongodb & redis

1. Get the boilerplate:

   mkdir projectname
   git clone git://github.com/hunterloftis/node-boilerplate.git projectname
   cd projectname

2. Check your system requirements and start local databases:

   scripts/requirements
   redis-server
   mongod

3. Try it:

   sudo npm install
   sudo node server

4. code, code, code

5. Set up a git repository hosting your project (eg, on Github)

Provision

Ubuntu VPS (eg, Linode)

1. Fill out scripts/deploy.conf - more

2. Put your & other developers' public keys in scripts/provisioning/keys (these public keys will have root access)

3. Provision your server as root:

   cd scripts
   sudo ./provision staging root
   

Deploy

3. Run within /scripts:

   ./deploy staging setup
   ./deploy -T staging
   

## deploy.conf

A sharp fork of visionmedia/deploy to be used for provisioning and deployment.

deploy(1) will look for ./deploy.conf, consisting of one or more environments, [staging], [production], etc, followed by directives.

An example .conf file with all available directives:

[production]
project awesome
repo git@github.com:Skookum/awesome.git
host 123.456.789.10
private /keys/awesome.id_rsa
environment production
ref origin/master
stack node

[media]
project awesome_media
repo git@github.com:Skookum/awesome.git
host 123.456.789.11
private /keys/awesome.id_rsa
ref origin/master
stack nginx

Directives

project

The name of your project. This is also the username of your deploy user, and the location of your deployed project (/home/$projectname). Avoid using characters other than [a-z] and underscore.

project better_than_facebook

repo

Your git repository. Deploying will pull from this uri as the deploy user, $projectname.

repo git://github.com/hunterloftis/node-boilerplate.git

host

The IP address of your server.

host 123.456.789.10

private

Path to your deploy user's private key. This is necessary if you are using a private git repository. If not, just use /dev/null.

private /keys/awesome.id_rsa

environment

A string that sets NODE_ENV for this project.

environment staging

ref

The default git ref from which to deploy. Defaults to origin/master.

ref origin/staging

stack

One of: node or nginx. The stack determines what type of server deployment you'd like to do. Node deploys a node server, while nginx deploys a very simple, fast, static file server that hosts your app/public directory. It's designed to deploy media.yoursite.com.

stack node