Express4 Bootstrape Jade Baseline

This is a Jump Off Point for Express 4 Sites

Includes:

• Express 4.x
• morgan 1.x
• Jade 1.x
• Bootstrap 3.3.4
• Grunt
• CoffeeScript
• LESS

Setup

1. Change the name in the package.json.
2. Run npm install to get all dependencies
3. Run grunt build to build your assets
4. Start the server
   • Locally Run nodemon server.js
   • Server Run npm start

Assests

Assets are named by the name value in the package.json file.

JavaScript / Coffee

CoffeeScript compile will build all *.coffee files in /src/coffee into /public/js/. These can then be run through JSHint and uglify to compile into a single minified file with a sourceMap.

CSS / LESS

LESS compile will compile and minify the /src/less/bootstrap.less file into the /public/css/ folder.

Grunt watch

Grunt watch has been setup to watch the /src directory and will by default, run all the assets to compile to minified versions.

grunt watch

Testing

Mocha with SuperTest is setup as a basic test sweet. use npm test to run the defined tests in the /tests directory.

npm test