node-express-dust vanilla js scaffolding

A vanilla js scaffolding powered by node, express, and dust templating.

Features:

• Simple ES6 class module structure. No extra framework.
• Babel with es2015
• Gulp build process
• Auto livereload
• Dust.js template rendering with the same files on server or browser client.
  • Dust is compiled through a helper package Sugarcone. More documentation coming soon for that.
• Includes a tiny ~3kb of Sprinkles for convenient DOM and AJAX utils.
• Works on heroku out of the box
• Includes example of using preact (see "preactor" component) for a simple component with live state updates.

Development Setup

• Install the dependencies:

npm install

• Copy or rename readme.env to .env.

  • The .env file will get parsed by app-express.js.
  • .env is .gitignored and can be used to store private tokens.

• Run the gulp build with livereload and start the server. It will run on port 3000.

npm run dev
# or just run 'gulp' if you have gulp installed globally.
# The app will be served at `localhost:3000`

Production Setup

• Run the production gulp build and start the server.

npm start
# npm prestart will automatically run the gulp build before starting.
# This works on services like Heroku too. So gulp runs on deploy.

Demo

• You can a tiny test here: https://erchaves-node-express-dust.herokuapp.com/

Future Features

• Make a simple module base class with a destory function that will auto-unbind events