nvdnkpr / node-loco-skeleton

A skeleton project built for node.js with Locomotive

node-loco-skeleton

This project aims to be a fairly simple skeleton project built on top of the Locomotive framework for Node.js. It's mostly a learning exercise as I play around with Node, but maybe someone will find it useful. I couldn't find a good starting project that already included a template engine, user authentication, and other things that most dynamic Web apps need.

I'm trying to make some effort to give a fairly complete starting point, so a lot of my opinions have been injected on structure and library choice have been injected along the way. But if you like my opinions, then this might be a good starting point for you :)

To get started, you'll need a working copy of MongoDB. By default, the app will connect to a database named test on localhost, but you can change this by editing config/environments/development.js. Once MongoDB is up and running, the following should suffice after cloning the repository:

npm install
npm start

Test coverage is currently very minimal, but more tests are in the works. You can run tests with npm test.

Linting

You can lint the entire project with grunt lint. I find it useful to lint the code each time I commit to make sure I don't commit something which doesn't lint. To do this, just add the following to .git/hooks/pre-commit and mark it as executable.

#!/bin/sh
grunt lint

Integrations

Of course you can see dependencies in the package.json, but here's a brief overview.

• Dust paired with consolidate for templating. If it's good enough for LinkedIn, it's good enough for me
• Mongoose ODM for MongoDB object modeling
• Passport for authentication, currently supporting local authentication with passport-local with Mongoose and bcrypt
• Winston for logging (including default Express logging
• Grunt for some handy build/test tools on the command line
• Vows and should for testing