Protothril is the idea of a blueprint for web applications. It should include the tools I usually work with on the frontend and backend. It is very opinionated and temporary.

Tools

Frontend

• Gulp
• Mithril
• Less
• Purecss.io

Backend

• node.js
• Express
• elasticsearch

Features (√ means done)

• Ability to translate UI √
• Validation (in work)
• Crud lists with
  • sorting √
  • filtering √
  • pagination √
• Easy form creation with helpers for
  • select √
  • date √
  • number (InputHelper Mask Field) √
  • currency
  • boolean switch
  • captcha (https://github.com/emotionLoop/visualCaptcha)
  • file/image upload
• User Management
  • Registration √
  • Confirmation Email √
• Authentification √
• Role bases authorization
• Mobile App Ready (Cordova - http://blog.bitovi.com/getting-started-with-cordova-in-15-minutes-or-less/)
• Easy Deploy
• Modularization of server code

V2 Features

• Datatransport with Messagepack
• Flexibilization of CSS (Purecss, Bootstrap, ...) with transformers
• DDP over SSE
• image manipulation

Ideas

• Alternative to private npm repos: http://fiznool.com/blog/2015/05/20/an-alternative-to-npm-private-modules/