generator-localwebdevtoolkit

Simple NodeJS Server with Proxy included

The purpose of this module is help web developers to quickly run and develop web applications on their local NodeJS environment, and through the Bundled Proxy setup, connect to the actual data server (Trick the Same-origin policy standards), without requiring modifications to the application code.

Constraints

• You are developing the UI(HTML) of your web application locally.
• You have the database server located somewhere on the web.

Problem

• You want to connect your application (localhost) to the database server (https://...), so you can test with the data that you actually have on your external web server (e.g. Amazon.com).

Solution

1. Install Yeoman by npm install yo -g
2. Install GruntJS by npm install grunt-cli -g
3. Install the toolkit npm install generator-localwebdevtoolkit -g
4. Navigate to your project folder
5. Run yo localwebdevtoolkit

All you have to do now is configure the grunt tasks and run grunt serve.

Configuration

This sandbox is based purely on GruntJS Modules, hence it is easy to extend and to configure. The folder structure by default looks like:

yourprojectfolder/
  grunt/
    config/
       *here you place all configuration files*
    tasks/
       *here you map the configuration files to tasks*

Feel free to edit these to fit your needs.

Usage

Once you finished the setup, all you have to do is place your source and test files under the project folder, like:

yourprojectfolder/
  *here you place your source/test files
  grunt/
    config/
       *here you place all configuration files*
    tasks/
       *here you map the configuration files to tasks*

And then run grunt serve.

Additional Info

Currently this scaffold ships the following modules, so follow the links to have further information about the supported API.

• grunt-middleware-proxy
• grunt-connect-rewrite
• grunt-contrib-connect
• grunt-contrib-watch