deployd-shortcut

an easy way to create a deployd project and set it up as an express middleware with built in template support and configuration defaults

how to install

npm install --save deployd-shortcut

usage

//dont forget to process.chdir(__dirname) if you run it using a daemon
var app=require('deployd-shortcut')({
    PORT:8990,
    ENV:'production',
    MONGO_HOST:'localhost',
    MONGO_PORT:27017,
    MONGO_DB:'mydb',
    MONGO_CREDENTIALS:{username:'user',password:'yourpassword'},
    TEMPLATE_ENGINE:'nunjucks',
    TEMPLATE_DIR:'mytemplates'
});
 
 
app.get('/',function(req,res){
    res.render('index',{firstname:'john',lastname:'doe'});
});
 
app.run();

default configuration

you do not have to fill in all the configuration params since there are some default values for most of them.

the default values are:

• PORT:8989
• ENV:'development' ( the valid values are: 'development' or 'production')
• MONGO_HOST: 'localhost'
• MONGO_PORT: 27017
• MONGO_DB: 'depdb'
• MONGO_CREDENTIALS: (Only active when in production ENV)
• TEMPLATE_DIR: 'templates'
• TEMPLATE_ENGINE: '' ( no template engine is set by default. the valid values are the names of the template engines that the expressjs library allready has builtin support for like: 'pug', 'ejs'.Beside those the package has also support for 'nunjucks' template engine which is actually the recommanded one(beware that the 'nunjucks' templates require a .html file extension)