melodiccrypter/noder-scaffolding

Basic Node app scaffolding with frontend (MVC). Just to get you started immediately. Babel included but no bundler like WebPack yet.

Technology Used:

• Node
• Express
• HPP
• CORS
• HELMET
• Compression
• ES6Renderer
• Babel
• Node-Sass
• Nodemon

A very lightweight and basic node application (scaffolding) equipped with Babel for Node. WebPack is not included in this setup because the Babel part in this minimal setup focuses only on the backend. You can always add WebPack anytime you want if you want to transpile both backend and frontend and bundle everything at the same time. You can check my Robust Node Scaffolding git repo here for a more sophisticated setup.

Development

1. After editing the app.scss (inside public/scss/app.scss) file for your style (Note: if you don't want to use scss, edit directly app.css inside public/css/app.css). If you continue using scss, then just run yarn build:css command to compile your sass file to a css file.

2. To test locally just run yarn dev:start

Views

For the views, ES6Renderer is used. A really great node package for rendering dynamic stuff to your frontend by just using Javascript's template string feature.