Node JS starter web application

A todo web application built on the following principles (mainly inspired from the react, redux architecture)

• Allowing client side and server side routing for the same set of routes.
• Reusable views between client and server side
• using a common state on the client side in order to read off one place (see window.todos in the code) .

Features incorporated

• Client side routing and rendering using window.history.popState
• Server side routing and rendering
• Reuse of templates/views on client and server side
• Creation of artifact that will append a hash to the javascript filename

Tech Stack

• Node/Express JS
• handlebars
• Webpack
• Gulp for bursting cache of javascript using file content hash (this should be replaced with webpack)

For Development

To start the dev environment run

npm run start-dev

and go to http://localhost:5000/

In dev mode, watch is enabled for both the client side and the server side.

To create an artifact

npm run create-artifact

Artifact will be created in the dist directory. node_modules will not be copied. To copy node modules into the artifact directory you can use this script