thomaslein / todo-app

A MVC example project with NodeJS and MongoDB backend serving pure vanilla js as frontend

To Do App Example

A MVC example project with NodeJS and MongoDB backend serving pure vanilla js as frontend.

Installation

If you've never used NodeJS, MongoDB or Yarn before, you'll need to install them. If you use homebrew, just run:

brew install node
brew install mongodb
brew install yarn

Otherwise, you can download and install them manually

Download NodeJS here

Download MongoDB here

Download Yarn here.

Install dependencies

yarn

This runs through all dependencies listed in yarn.lock and installs them locally within the project.

Running development scripts

mongod

yarn dev

This will start mongoDB server and compile your assets and serve them over browser-sync with webpack-dev-middleware and webpack-hot-middleware, proxied through the domain specified in host.js.

Localhost for development

http://localhost:3000

Backend proxy

http://localhost:8080

Running build scripts

yarn build

This will build without minify and hashing assets.

Building for production

yarn production

This will minify and hash all assets etc.

Testing with Jest

This repo includes a test suite running Jest.

To run the tests simply run:

yarn test

Code style

This repo follows the airbnb javascript coding style guide. It also includes some default editor settings using editor config.