A bare bones all-in-one boilerplate for creating Web Applications for desktop and mobile.

It is based on the MEAN stack and uses MongoDB, Express, AngularJS and Node to create an entire solution and workflow for building practically anything in a short amount of time.

The Frontend stack uses Jade and Sass with Grunt which builds your project and refreshes styles as you code!

• Live reloads CSS and HTML
• Jade Templates
• Sass Stylesheets
• Automatically builds your project as you code
• Keeps scripts un-minified and un-concatenated for easy debugging

• Build the project with one command: grunt --production
• Minifies and concats scripts using UglifyJS

• Node >=0.10.7
• Npm >=1.2.23
• MongoDB
• Grunt CLI
• Nodemon (optional)
• Forever (optional)

• npm install
  Installs all node modules

• grunt
  Runs the build task and then watches files. When jade/sass/scripts change, it builds them. Also livereloads the browser when css changes

• nodemon server.js or node server
  Nodemon will restart server when server files change. If you prefer not to use it, just run default node app

• npm install --production
  Only install node modules needed for production (excludes devDependencies)

• grunt --production
  Builds the project and exits

• forever server.js or node server.js
  Starts the node server. Forever is a utility that will restart your node server when it crashes or the machine reboots

In development, public_src/index.jade is injected with the scripts located in public_src/scripts.json. In production we use scripts.json to concatinate and minify files preserving their order, we then inject a single script into public_src/index.jade for performance reasons.

When you need to add/update scripts, all you need to do is edit the file located at public_src/scripts.json and everything is handled automatically.

• User signup/login is already implemented as a template for working with the RESTful api
• A basic Angular Frontend is already set up with some best practices. I will be working on this more in the near future

• SMTP server + nodemailer
• Favicon + App Icon
• Karma + Jasmine
  • Unit tests
• Angular
  • touch
  • resource template

• Adding a new script to an empty folder in public_src/scripts does not trigger watch. This is a known issue, and for now, requires you to just re-run grunt

• You can run mongod in the background permanently with "sudo mongod --fork --logpath /var/log/mongod.log" Then to kill it, find his pid with "ps aux | grep mongod" and "kill "