js-seed

JS-Seed is a starter project for JavaScript apps and packages that you can use to bootstrap new JavaScript projects quickly.

This project contains a sample application with the following features:

• SASS for CSS templating
• JavaScript ES6 example module
• React example module
• Gulp 4 for builds
• Uglify for JavaScript compression
• Mocha for unit tests and E2E tests

Our goal is to help developers build JavaScript apps and packages from the ground up using current best practices. If you have suggestions for how to improve js-seed please create a GitHub issue or submit a pull request.

Directory structure

js-seed
├── README.md
├── build-targets
│   ├── e2e-tests.js
│   ├── seed-react.js
│   └── seed.js
├── dist
│   ├── css
│   │   ├── seed.css
│   │   └── seed.min.css
│   ├── js
│   │   ├── seed.js
│   │   └── seed.min.js
│   └── react
│       ├── seed-react.js
│       └── seed-react.min.js
├── e2e-tests
│   ├── index.html
│   └── tests.js
├── examples
│   ├── assets
│   │   ├── js-seed
│   │   │   ├── css
│   │   │   │   ├── seed.css
│   │   │   │   └── seed.min.css
│   │   │   ├── js
│   │   │   │   ├── seed.js
│   │   │   │   └── seed.min.js
│   │   │   └── react
│   │   │       ├── seed-react.js
│   │   │       └── seed-react.min.js
│   │   └── vendor
│   │       ├── babel-standalone
│   │       │   └── 7.2.0
│   │       │       ├── babel.js
│   │       │       └── babel.min.js
│   │       └── react
│   │           └── 16.6.3
│   │               ├── react-dom.js
│   │               └── react.js
│   ├── js.html
│   └── react.html
├── gulpfile.js
├── main.js
├── package-lock.json
├── package.json
├── src
│   ├── js
│   │   └── button.js
│   ├── react
│   │   └── button.jsx
│   └── sass
│       ├── _variables.scss
│       └── style.scss
└── test
    ├── js-tests
    │   └── test-button.js
    ├── lib
    │   └── react-helpers.js
    ├── mocha.opts
    └── react-tests
        └── test-button.js

Dependencies

• nodejs (http://nodejs.org/)
• npm (https://www.npmjs.org/)
• Sass (http://sass-lang.com/)

Quickstart

1. Download a copy of js-seed

   $ wget https://github.com/amorey/js-seed/archive/master.zip
   $ unzip master.zip
   $ cd js-seed-master

2. Install nodejs dependencies

   $ npm install

3. Build examples

   $ ./node_modules/.bin/gulp examples

To view the example you can use any static file server. To use the nodejs http-server module:

$ npm install http-server
$ ./node_modules/.bin/http-server -p 8081

Then visit http://localhost:8081/examples/.

If everything worked properly, when you click on the button an alert message will pop up.

1. Watch for changes

   $ ./node_modules/.bin/gulp watch

Re-build the examples anytime a sass file a js file changes.

Creating production builds

To create a production build of the app, run gulp dist:

$ ./node_modules/.bin/gulp dist

The build will be located in the dist directory:

dist/
|-- css
|   |-- js-seed.css
|   `-- js-seed.min.css
`-- js
    |-- js-seed.js
    `-- js-seed.min.js

To deploy the app just copy the dist directory to a location of your choosing.

Node.js entrypoint

The skeleton is configured to export a nodejs module via the main.js file. The file can be modified to expose other functionality. Here's an example of how to download js-seed from GitHub and use it as a nodejs module:

$ npm install git@amorey/js-seed
$ nodejs
> var jsSeed = require('js-seed');
> jsSeed.message();
js-seeeeed!

Unit tests

The skeleton is configured to use Jest (https://facebook.github.io/jest/) for unit testing. To run the unit tests install jest-cli then run jest:

$ npm install jest-cli
$ ./node_modules/.bin/jest
Found 1 matching test...
PASS  __tests__/lib-test.js (0.017s)
1 test passed (1 total)
Run time: 0.784s