Express Seed Application

A jumping-off point for node+express based web applications.

included packages:

• Express
• Bootstrap 3
• Font Awesome
• jQuery
• Less
• CoffeeScript
• Jade
• Socket.IO
• Modernizr
• es5-shim
• Knockout
• Mongoose
• Passport

How to run in development mode:

• clone the app and install dependencies:

git clone [email protected]:immense/express-seed.git
cd express-seed
npm install
bower install

• copy the sample config files:

grunt setup

• edit the config files in app/config to your liking

• seed the database

grunt db:seed

• run the server using nodemon:

grunt

How to deploy production

Note: This deploy process is specific to CentOS machines with nginx compiled with the passenger module.

• create a user account on the host machine called express-seed and set it up:

adduser express-seed
chmod 755 /home/express-seed
su - express-seed
ssh-keygen -t rsa -P '' -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

• copy the key into a new deploy key for this app

• clone the app into sites in the user's home folder and install dependencies:

mkdir sites
cd sites
git clone [email protected]:immense/express-seed.git
cd express-seed
npm install
bower install

• copy the sample config files:

grunt setup

• edit the config files in app/config to your liking

  • Note: make sure to change env to production in app/config/app.coffee
  • Note: make sure to set serverNames in app/config/nginx.coffee

• seed the database

grunt db:seed

• set up the nginx config and reload the nginx config

su -c "grunt setup-nginx"
su -c "service nginx reload"

• compile the assets and restart the application:

grunt production

How to update a production deployment

• pull the changes:

git pull

• install any new dependencies:

npm install
bower install

• recompile the assets and restart the application:

grunt production

License

Express Seed is released under the MIT License. Please see the LICENSE file for details.