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About

This is a single-page application built from scratch using Backbone, Express, Pug (formerly known as Jade), Stylus and Handlebars. This project accumulates a large variety of Frontend technologies and knowledge.

Some notes regarding this application's setup

• created application skeleton with express
• npm install nodemon as dev dependency and change npm start to use nodemon
• initialized bower components with bower init
• install bower dependencies
  • jquery, backbone (will install underscore automatically), and handlebars
• installed npm grunt package as dev dependency and then grunt plugins (dev):
  • grunt-bower-concat to concatenate bower plugins
  • grunt-contrib-handlebars: lets us have external handlebars templates precompiled into JS functions
  • grunt-contrib-uglify: minify JS files as much as possible
  • grunt-contrib-watch: lets us monitor handlebars directory and if changes to templates then it'll automatically recompile the JS file
  • set up grunt file to concat and minify our JS and run it with grunt CLI command
  • install Stylus with npm install