generator-quick-server

A small server boilerplate for quick and easy application prototyping

Generator Quick-server comes with all you may need to easily start a development environment and focus your efforts only on your application development.

It comes packed with some of the latest and hottest web technologies, such as transpilers, compilers and validators, including Babel, ESLint, Sass and Sass-lint.

Installation

First, install Yeoman and generator-quick-server using npm (we assume you have pre-installed node.js).

npm install -g yo
npm install -g generator-quick-server

Generating a project

First create a new directory

mkdir myproject
cd myproject

Then generate your new project:

yo quick-server

Answer the questions and then

npm start

A new browser window will open, indicating that everything went OK.

Included technologies/tools

• ES6 (ES2015) support (Babel, grunt-babel)
• Frontend dependency management (Bower)
• Javascript code quality and compliance check (ESLint, eslint-config-airbnb, grunt-eslint)
• Local static server (Connect, grunt-contrib-connect)
• Automatic files recompilation and live-reload for static files (grunt-contrib-watch)
• Javascript minification (Uglify, grunt-contrib-uglify)
• Public URL exposure (Localtunnel, grunt-localtunnel-client)
• Notification system (grunt-notify)
• Sass compiler (LibSass, grunt-sass)
• Sass Code Quality and compliance validator (Sass Lint, grunt-sass-lint)

Release History

• 1.1.0 [25/04/2017]

  • Replaced grunt-localtunnel-me by grunt-localtunnel-client
  • Possibility to set subdomain for Localtunnel

• 1.0.1 [24/04/2017]

  • Dependencies update

• 1.0.0 [18/04/2017]

  • Initial version

Future plans

• Add input validation and required fields
• Make bower option a sub-generator
• Make localtunnel option a sub-generator
• Make mobile assets a sub-generator
• Make dummy app icon images a sub-generator
• Option to choose CSS pre-processor (Sass, Less, Stylus)
• Add Editor Config
• Add keyword options
• Add tests

License

MIT © Renato Rodrigues