These files are meant to help you quickly get up and running using Grunt with Express, with livereload and automatic app server reboots for rapid development. Client-side libraries are retrieved with bower.
Popular client-side libraries included and configured:
- Modernizr
- jQuery
- Backbone
- Lo-dash
- RequireJS
- Handlebars
- JSON2.js
- SASS with Compass
Server-side libraries included and configured:
- Express
- Jade
- node-inspector
Grunt plugins I included in package.json and configured in Gruntfile.js are:
- grunt-nodemon (~0.0.2)
- grunt-contrib-handlebars - for precompiled client-side templates
- grunt-concurrent (~0.2.0 !important)
- grunt-contrib-watch (~0.4.3 !important)
This scaffold is based off of the default Yeoman scaffold, started with
$ yo webapp
I've built on it from that initial state. You'll notice that Twitter Bootstrap files were removed and Mocha unit tests were left unchanged from the initial webapp scaffold. It's intended that you set those up if and however you like, as many configurations are possible, especially with RequireJS. You're encouraged to check out phawk's Backbone Stack for one example. My testing setup is very different from his. I'm also using Testem as a test harness in my project setup, and not grunt test as in the Gruntfile.
This and more in the companion blog post to this repository.
If you want to grunt build for production with Handlebars in your project, you'll need to change the Handlebars runtime library code from the initial var Handlebars = {}; to this.Handlebars = {}; so that it'll be attached to the window object and found by RequireJS modules. It seems this is being fixed upstream with the Handlebars developers at the time of this writing.