eskimo

Eskimo

Eskimo helps you to rapidly build Node powered API's, online stores, and apps in general (known as "igloos"). Requires Node >= 0.10.x, Redis for sessions, and your choice of either Knex/Bookshelf (SQL) or Mongoose (MongoDB) for data.

Index

• Sponsor
• Install
• Screencast
• Commands
• Examples
• Free Stickers
• Tests
• Conventions
• Contributors
• Credits
• License

Sponsor

Install

npm install -g eskimo

Documentation

The wiki is the main source for additional documentation.

Screencast

TODO: Basic screencast here

Commands

Bundled with the CLI are simple commands and options.

eskimo --help
Usage: eskimo [options] [command]

Commands:

  create <dirname>       create a new igloo
  model <name>           create a new model
  view <name>            create a new view
  controller <name>      create a new controller
  mvc <name>             create a new model, view, and controller

Options:

  -h, --help                output usage information
  -V, --version             output the version number
  -N, --no-update-notifier  disable update notifier
  -T, --no-tracking         disable anonymous tracking

Once you've created an igloo, see the generated Readme.md file.

Usage samples:

# To create a new igloo in `./awesome`:
eskimo create awesome

# To create a new model, views, and controller (with routes and tests) for "tags", in `./app/views/tags/*.jade`, `./app/models/tag.js`, `./app/controllers/tags.js`, `./app/routes/tags.js`, and `./test/99-tags.test.js`:
eskimo mvc tag
# Note: You could write "tags" as well (no quotes necessary if there are no spaces)

# To create a new controller (with routes and tests) in `./app/controllers/user-settings.js`, `./app/routes/user-settings.js`, and `./test/99-user-settings.test.js`
eskimo controller 'user settings'
# Note: You could write "user-settings" as well (no quotes necessary if there are no spaces)

Please read Igloo's documentation for more information. or your created igloo's Readme.md.

Examples

• Launching Soon Page
• Stripe-powered Store
• RESTful API
• Zero-downtime Reloads
• Referral System
• Facebook & Google Log In
• Webhook Deploys
• CDN-hosted Assets

Free Stickers

Want a free Eskimo snow shoes sticker? Just submit this form.

Tests

To run tests you'll need to have configuration set up. Config lives under /boot/config.js (as stated before).

We've provided a base config template, which you will need to copy it to your local folder in order to run tests.

cp ./templates/boot/config.js ./boot/config.js

npm install -d
npm test

Assets

Assets refer to static files (scripts, stylesheets and other assets) placed in assets/public. To build a production version of your app:

gulp build

Note: This will minify all assets and create a ./assets/dist folder optimized and ready for deployment.

List of tasks executed during gulp build:

• Automatic LESS processing
• Automatic install of Bower packages
• Automatic images minification
• Automatic usemin implementation (concat, rev, ...)

Below is an example of a Jade file using usemin blocks:

//- # layout

//- ...

//- build:js /js/app.js
block scripts
  script(src='/bower/jquery/dist/jquery.js')
  script(src='/bower/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js')
  script(src='/bower/bootbox/bootbox.js')
  script(src='/js/plugins.js')
  script(src='/js/main.js')
  if settings.facebook.enabled
    script(src='/js/fb-appended-hash-bug-fix.js')
//- endbuild

After running gulp build, the file will be optimized:

//- # layout

//- ...

script(src='/js/app-316568f4.js')

Conventions

See nifty-conventions for code guidelines, general project requirements, and git workflow.

Contributors

• Nick Baugh
• Adnan Ibrišimbegović
• Bruno Bernardino
• Yanick Landry
• Alberto Gimeno

Credits

• Snow Shoes by Marc Serre from The Noun Project
• ESKIMO IGLOO (color palette)

License

MIT