Hackathon Starter – Boilerplate for Node.js web application

If you want boilerplate, the Yeoman collection tools: <a href="http://yeoman.io/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;yeoman.io&#x2F;</a> is what you need. There&#x27;s boilerplate for a huge amount of projects, with generators of the parts (like: service for Angular, models for Ember, routes for Backbone...). The angular-generator is a very complex piece of work, but is extremely efficient. I highly suggest you to try it twice: once to fuck things up, another to understand the good way.<p>You can eventually use these CSS and HTML skeletons (<a href="http://html5up.net/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;html5up.net&#x2F;</a>) to do something neat, but I don&#x27;t think someone will judge you because you used bootstrap.<p>In term of javascript development, I&#x27;ve found SugarJs (<a href="http://sugarjs.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sugarjs.com</a>) to be extremely productive and efficient for what I need, combined with the front-end framework of your choice.<p>And you, what&#x27;s yours ?

There&#x27;s also a nice tool called Lineman <a href="http://www.linemanjs.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linemanjs.com&#x2F;</a>. It&#x27;s a simple convention-over-configuration-get-out-of-your-way command line utility that does all the heavy lifting so you can just code your app.<p>There are a number of templates[1] to get you started and once you get over the initial learning curve lineman fades into the background while you iterate on your app.<p>For a comparison with Yeoman see: <a href="http://www.linemanjs.com/#lineman-vs-yeoman" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linemanjs.com&#x2F;#lineman-vs-yeoman</a><p>[1]: <a href="http://www.linemanjs.com/#project-templates" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linemanjs.com&#x2F;#project-templates</a>

The use of the word &quot;kickstarter&quot; is pretty confusing here. My first thought was that this was something people at hackathons could use to put up ideas and see who&#x27;s interested in joining them. I guess I should have noticed the lowercase &quot;k&quot;.

Is XCode or Visual Studio really a prerequisite? I guess I&#x27;m missing something, but looks like I could do this in IntelliJ or even sublime. Looks very interesting but I don&#x27;t use either of those and don&#x27;t have the current ability to run out and buy a Mac and have no interest in developing on Windows.

You should also checkout Drywall (<a href="http://jedireza.github.io/drywall/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jedireza.github.io&#x2F;drywall&#x2F;</a>)<p>Has all major oauth integrations and a fantastic user system... I have also heard that it was used a bunch at node knockout recently. Definitely worth checking out-

This is so cool! Has anyone seen anything similar for a python flask app boilerplate (with OAuth + how to use guide)?

I know it&#x27;s shameless, but what are comments for if not self-promotion... I&#x27;m working on something like that too:<p><a href="https://github.com/rocco/node-base" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rocco&#x2F;node-base</a><p>My focus is on clean structure, completeness of tools and documentation (mostly inline) so you not only get a node&#x2F;express&#x2F;jade&#x2F;everyauth&#x2F;mongodb app but also can learn what&#x27;s going on and how it all works together.<p>SPA app on top coming up ...

A <i>boilerplate</i> for Node.js would be less confusing.

Very nice! This is a much better (and updated) version of my express-foundation project I created for hackathons: <a href="https://github.com/driverdan/express-foundation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;driverdan&#x2F;express-foundation</a><p>I&#x27;ve pretty much abandoned express-foundation since I haven&#x27;t been to a hackathon in a while. This repo pretty much seals its fate.

I think the differentiator here is the amount of documentation and that they make no assumptions about your system. For instance, telling me I need XCode to even build some of the libraries - not something I see in very many docs but absolutely something I see people run into at events like Startup Weekend.

As a casual hackathon participant, this is a really great tool. I&#x27;ve seen countless teams with winning ideas go down in flames when they spent two days on the log-in page. And I attribute any success I&#x27;ve had at hackathons more to my ability to prioritize away from those activities than my actual programming chops, which are average at best.<p>The biggest advantage you&#x27;ll get out of this system is that it&#x27;s simple, and you know it in and out because you built it. With all of the other tools that do the same thing, you run into the same problem: you don&#x27;t have time to learn a new tool at the hackathon. By the time you&#x27;ve figured out Yeoman (which looks really cool), you only have a few hours to implement your app&#x27;s actual functionality.

Unfortunately requires Mongodb as every other boilerplate Node.js app.

Cool work, but like others say, the title here is confusing.

I wondered when this day would come. This project doesn&#x27;t consider Linux a platform you develop on <a href="https://github.com/sahat/hackathon-starter#prerequisites" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sahat&#x2F;hackathon-starter#prerequisites</a>, but rather a platform you deploy to, if that. Heroku is so abstract it could be almost any OS.

Jesus, this is an enormous step up from mean.io and also from CLEAN[1], my fork of mean. Huge thanks for this, will become my new boilerplate. Anyone up for mantaining a Coffee fork? I think I&#x27;ll do it.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/gadr/clean" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gadr&#x2F;clean</a>

Kudos !!<p>Awesome, this is what I wanted to make. We should make this config driven. say what Oauth&#x2F;logins to be enabled, etc.<p>Any one starting a new project should use this this config and be able to get desired features up and running in minutes.

The instructions for setting up authentication accounts on github and google saved me so much time. I wish I could give this all the stars.

Thanks for posting this. I am particularly interested in the OAuth2 portion. I&#x27;m going to go pick through your code now. :D

Cool! Is there anything like this for Rails?

Or you could use <a href="http://hull.io" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hull.io</a> and not even need backend code

Awesome work! I think the tag line &quot;boilerplate for node.js hackathon apps&quot; would be more fitting.

Does anyone know of a similar project in Ruby?

I think it should include a Gruntfile.