Testing backbone-marionette apps using Yeoman (http://yeoman.io/) using yeoman marionette generator (https://github.com/mrichard/generator-marionette)

Yeoman generator for Express, Marionette and Backbone with AMD

Stack

• Server:
  • Node: http://nodejs.org/
  • Express: http://expressjs.com/
  • Socket IO: http://socket.io/
• DB: Mongo: http://www.mongodb.org/
• ODM: Mongoose: http://mongoosejs.com
• Client:
  • Backbone: http://backbonejs.org/
  • Marionette: https://github.com/marionettejs/backbone.marionette
  • jQuery: http://jquery.com/
  • Require: http://requirejs.org/
  • Handlebars:
    • http://handlebarsjs.com/
    • https://github.com/SlexAxton/require-handlebars-plugin
    • https://github.com/asciidisco/Backbone.Marionette.Handlebars
  • SASS-Bootstrap:
    • http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap
    • https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass
• Tooling:
  • Yeoman: http://yeoman.io/
  • Bower:
  • Grunt
• Testing:
  • phantomJS http://phantomjs.org/
  • Mocha http://visionmedia.github.io/mocha/
  • Chai http://chaijs.com/
  • Sinon http://sinonjs.org/

Directory structure

• app/ --> client side files

  • /bower_components --> bower installs

  • /images

  • /scripts

    • /vendor --> 3rd party scripts
    • /models
    • /collections
    • /controllers
    • /routers
    • /regions
    • /views
      • /item
      • /collection
      • /composite
      • /layout
    • init.js --> require configuration
    • main.js --> application starting point
    • application.js --> application file

  • /styles --> scss files

  • /templates --> handlebar templates

• server/ --> node server files

• test/ --> unittesting

  • /spec --> individual spec files