Visit the node-boot dev blog http://node-boot.blogspot.com/ to see how to build your app based on node-boot.
Visit http://node-boot.herokuapp.com/ for a live demo.
node-boot is a starting point for developing a web application based on a proven node.js stack:
- express
- jade view templates
- Twitter Bootstrap
- Socket.io
- MongoDB & Mongoose
- Redis
- Nodemailer
- Winston
- Passport OAuth
node-boot is a starting point providing a sensible, configurable, and customizable set of choices. You get a turnkey web app that provides common patterns such as environment-specific configuration files, clustering for multiple cores, SSL certificate setup, database connections, logging transports, and caching and compression of content.
The experience of building a production-ready, deployable web application involves making many choices: which technologies, what configuration settings, best practices, etc. While there is no one right set of choices, these are ones I have used in my own production web application and have found to be not only pragmatic and scalable, but a pleasure to work with. My hope is this might help you get off the ground fast so you can focus on building that awesome idea you've got in your head.
Fork node-boot at https://github.com/cbumgard/node-boot
Make sure you have the latest stable version of node.js and npm installed. Then just:
$ git clone https://github.com/cbumgard/node-boot$ cd node-boot/$ npm install$ node app.js
You should now be able to connect to http://localhost:8000/ and see a page just like this one.
And now build your awesome web app! Please feel free to submit pull requests and contact me at cbumgard@gmail.com