A Basic Node.js site

A basic Node.js site using:

• Mongoose - object data modeling (ODM) library to access a mongoDB data store
• Express web app framework
• Jade template engine
• Connect middleware (cookies, favicon, static files, session management, etc) Note: This is installed by NPM as a dependency for Express.
• twitter bootstrap front end framework
• tbd - login using Google, Facebook, etc (passport?)
• best practices for packages.json (support dev & prod, proper dependency version wild-carding etc.)

Steps:

$ cd ~/dev          (assumes ~/dev exists)

$ express appName   (pick any valid app name)

$ cd appName

edit package.json to include following dependency line

"mongoose": "*"

$ npm install     (install all dependencies)

$ npm start       (just test the server starts and works the ^c out of it)

$ mkdir model     (create a dir to hold model related files)

$ cd model

edit db.js to contain:

var mongoose = require( 'mongoose' );

var todoSchema = new mongoose.Schema({

 item: String,

 complete: Boolean,

 date: { type: Date, default: Date.now }

});

mongoose.model( 'Todo', todoSchema );

mongoose.connect( 'mongodb://localhost/todoDB' );

add to app.js:

, db = require('./model/db')