Angular Express Seed
Start an awesome app with AngularJS on the front, Express + Node on the back. This project is an
application skeleton for a typical AngularJS web app for those who want
to use Node to serve their app.
The seed contains angular libraries, test libraries and a bunch of scripts all preconfigured for
instant web development gratification. Just clone the repo (or download the zip/tarball) and
you're ready to develop your application.
The seed app shows how to wire together Angular client-side components with Express on the server.
It also illustrates writing angular partials/views with the Jade templating library.
Note: Although Jade supports interpolation, you should be doing that mostly on the client. Mixing
server and browser templating will convolute your app. Instead, use Jade as a syntactic sugar for
HTML, and let AngularJS take care of interpolation on the browser side.
How to use angular-express-seed
Clone the angular-express-seed repository, run npm install to grab the dependencies, and start hacking!
Running the app
Runs like a typical express app:
node app.js
Running tests
Coming soon!
Receiving updates from upstream
Just fetch the changes and merge them into your project with git.
Directory Layout
app.js --> app config
package.json --> for npm
public/ --> all of the files to be used in on the client side
css/ --> css files
app.css --> default stylesheet
img/ --> image files
js/ --> javascript files
app.js --> declare top-level app module
controllers.js --> application controllers
directives.js --> custom angular directives
filters.js --> custom angular filters
services.js --> custom angular services
lib/ --> angular and 3rd party JavaScript libraries
angular/
angular.js --> the latest angular js
angular.min.js --> the latest minified angular js
angular-*.js --> angular add-on modules
version.txt --> version number
routes/
api.js --> route for serving JSON
index.js --> route for serving HTML pages and partials
views/
index.jade --> main page for app
layout.jade --> doctype, title, head boilerplate
partials/ --> angular view partials (partial jade templates)
partial1.jade
partial2.jade
Example App
A simple blog based on this seed.
Contact
For more information on AngularJS please check out http://angularjs.org/
For more on Express and Jade, http://expressjs.com/ and http://jade-lang.com/ are
your friends.
License
MIT