require-backbone-template

This is a base template that includes the following features already configured based on nodejs.

• NodeJS
• Express server to run the project
• requirejs with text plugin
• BackBone
• Lodash
• Twitter Bootstrap v3.x
• jQuery
• less support
• Grunt to complile it into 1 js/css file with mapping files

Installation

You need grunt installed globally:

$ npm install -g grunt

Git clone the code to your system and install

$ git clone https://github.com/paulrichards19/require-backbone-template.git
$ cd require-backbone-template
$ npm install

Usage

To run the server:

$ node server.js

Go to http://localhost:3001/index.html to view site. public/js/app can contain all the backbone files. Main.js has the configuration and public/js/app/App.js is the application entry point.

Grunt build process

To build all files in to optimized JavaScript and CSS run:

$ grunt

You can then find all the files in the build folder.

Grunt watch to build less file in development

$ grunt buildless

This will watch /public/css/less directory for changes and update /public/css/styles.css.

License

MIT