Node App

A starting point for node.js based apps. Uses Docker to setup a node.js, mysql, and redis server. Webpack is used to bundle the client JS.

Getting Started on Development

Prerequisite

You need docker installed

1.) Check the settings in .env

You should change the SESSION_SECRET and update the app and mysql ports if they are going to conflict with any of your existing services

2.) Start the app containers

A node.js server, mysql database, and redis service will be started. The node server will auto restart after crashing or when changes are made to /app/server

$ cd /this/dir
$ docker-compose up

If all goes as planned, you should see this message:

App running: localhost:8080

port may be different if you canged it in .env

3.) Start the developing

Webpack will be used to watch the files in /app/client and rebuild them.

$ cd app
$ npm run dev

The webpack bundler should be run from within the docker container. The dev script is setup to do that

Commands

Some commands for developing

• docker-compose up - start the app
• docker-compose down - end the app
• npm run dev - watch for client changes and rebuild
• npm run install - install missing/new JS dependencies
• npm run cd-server - "change directory" to the node server

Dependency notes

jQuery is imported by Backbone.js even though its not a hard dependency. Because of this, webpack complains if we dont have jQuery. To get around this, client/jquery.js was created that only includes the absolute minimum

Code Report

Keeping the client code slim and fast is important. An analyzer has been setup as part of the initial webpack build so we can analyze what code oversized.

It can be accessed from the root: localhost:8080/bundle-report.html