mean.coffee

WORK IN PROGRESS

(Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) - A Simple, Scalable and Easy starting point for full stack javascript web development originally inspired by http://mean.io/

BK Note: Signficant structure changes in progress. Additional baseline setup as well, inspired by ngbp. A lot of the original guidance will not be valid. README to be updated when stable.

How to mean.coffee

• Install prerequisites

  • npm install -g coffee-script
  • npm install -g bower
  • npm install -g gulp

• Install dependencies:

  • npm install (will bower install as well)

• Run the server

  • npm start || coffee server.coffee

• Run gulp

  • npm run gulp (for dev)
  • npm run gulp-build (for prod)

Differences compared to mean.io:

• everything is written with coffeescript
• use gulp instead of grunt
• don't use any template engine:
  • the node.js server only serve static html files
  • angularJS will do the rest (routing + calling the REST API)
• code to manipulate model objects is in the service folder (instead of app/controller in mean.io)
• extra stuff:
  • winston (logger) - lib/logger.coffee
  • memwatch (for memory leaks) - server.coffee
  • nodetime (monitoring) - server.coffee

TODO

• forever script + git hook for custom deployment
• procfile for heroku deployment