Node + EJS boilderplate

This boilerplate includes the following

• Gulp (task runner)
• EJS (templating)
• BrowserSync (live reloading)
• SASS (css preprocessor)
• ES6 (gulp-babel)
• eslint (js linting)
• Mocha (testing)
• Karma (test runner)
• Chai (testing assertion lib)

Install and Run

npm install

npm start

Distributing

When you're ready to distribute the goods, run the below command. This will compile/transpile/minimize everything and place all in the dist/ folder.

gulp build-dist

Gulp Tasks

Gulp tasks will run automatically but to manually run them:

Building Javascript: This will concat the js files together in order by name:

gulp build-js

Building SASS

gulp build-sass

Compressing Images

gulp build-images

Using JS Node Modules on the client

gulp build-js-modules

Testing

Create your *.spec.js files as needed inside src/js/*

npm run test