Description

note alpha state use as code inspiration currently

simple project that will take care of:

• setting up an express server

  • with csrf
  • with helmet
  • using redis session store
  • with passportjs for github and twitter login

• setting up an socket io

  • redis session store
  • can reuse sessions from express for login
  • works behind proxy

• work behind a loadbalancer (haproxy)

  • ssl termination is correct
  • good ciphers check enabled

• has metrics integrated (statsd)

• has integrated loggers (winston)

• all errors are handled

• works with socket.io-client & websockets

supports nodejs 0.8 - 0.10 (not 11)

Usage

Intended use is like this (not 100% accurate code now)

var SocialApp = require('socialapp');
var socialApp = new SocialApp(options);
var socialExpress = sociallApp.express;
var socialSocketio = sociallApp.socketIO;

Now you can extend it by adding your routes or socket handlers to both socialExpress & socialSocketio

emits events 'error','started','stopped'

Future/Todo

• integrate with cluster