Project template for gulp.js

What it does

• Jade files to HTML
• Stylus files to CSS
• JSX files to Javascript through browserify
  • You are able to use 'require' in your client-side code
• Serves your static files to localhost:9001
• Reloads your browser with LiveReload when files change

Getting things up and running

• Install Node.js

 git clone [email protected]:leonidas/gulp-project-template.git <your project name>
 cd <your project name>
 npm install
 npm start
 open http://localhost:9001 in your browser

Enable LiveReload

Install LiveReload for Chrome

CLI Commands

• npm install
  • Installs server-side dependencies from NPM and client-side dependencies from Bower
• npm start
  • Compiles your files, starts watching files for changes, serves static files to port 9001
• npm run build
  • Builds everything

Minification, uglification and other tasks you're expected to run before deploying your product can be made by running the build command with env variable NODE_ENV set to "production"

NODE_ENV=production npm run build

Development guidelines

• public - directory should be dedicated only to compiled/copied files from src - directory. It should be possible to delete directory completely and after npm start or npm run build everything should be as they were before the deletion.
• All backend dependencies should be installed with npm. Browser dependencies should be installed with bower or with npm.

Using JavaScript instead of CoffeeScript

Remove coffeeify transform from package.json file (browserify.transform field)

    "transform": [
-     "coffeeify",
      "debowerify",
      "deamdify"
    ]

and change the ".coffee" extension to ".js" from gulpfile.coffee

config =
  scripts:
-   source: './src/coffee/main.coffee'
-   extensions: ['.coffee']
+   source: './src/js/main.js'
+   extensions: ['.js']

You also can change the directory name to scripts or what ever.