MVC Framework with Express

Overview

• This application built with Express, Socket.io
• Features
  • Minification and copying of all JavaScript files, stylesheets, static images with Gulp
  • Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the:
    • Server using Nodemon
    • Browser using Browser-sync
  • MVC structure (Model, View, Controller, Helper, Route(restful, implicit))
  • Setup pooled MySQL connections
  • Avoiding Callback Hell, managing callbacks in MySQL with Async.js.
  • Provide SQL Knex query builder (Like Laravel Query Builder)
  • Make socket.io work fine with the Express generator setup.
  • Load environment variables from a .env file
  • Easy Node Authentication using Passport.js
  • HTML-like templating engine with Nunjucks.

Setup and Run Project

• Clone source and install necessary packages

$ git clone git@github.com:euclid1990/express.git my-proj
$ cd my-proj
$ yarn install / npm install
$ bower install

• Create new database name: express

$ mysql -u{your_username} -p{your_password}
mysql> CREATE DATABASE express
    DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8
    DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

• Import database.sql into express MySQL database

$ mysql -u{your_username} -p{your_password} express < database.sql

• Run arbitrary package script to change .env configuration for correspondence.

$ npm run setup

• Start server

$ gulp start

Access Application

http://localhost:3000/

Stop Browser-sync and Nodemon server

Press Ctr+C or

$ sudo apt-get install lsof
$ sudo kill -9 (lsof -i :3000 -t)
$ sudo kill -9 (lsof -i :8000 -t)