GitHub - julien/espresso-boilerplate: Espresso is a little boilerplate you can use to create Express apps along with CoffeeScript, Jade and Stylus. *unmaintained*

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Espresso is a little boilerplate you can use to create Express apps along with CoffeeScript, Jade and Stylus.

Installation

  1. Run npm install -g espresso-boilerplate to install espresso as an NPM module

First Espresso app

  1. Run espresso APPNAME to create a new project
  2. Run cd APPNAME && npm install to install the dependencies
  3. Run coffee app.coffee and you'r done! just open a browser and type http://localhost:3000

Minification

JS minification is done with UglifyJS Run Espresso with coffee app.coffee -p to minify the generated CoffeeScript

Todo

  1. Better Espresso website and documentation
  2. Allow custom build

Authors

License

See LICENSE.txt