Easy Nodejs Setup

This project is a simple setup I want to have for other projects.

It contains the following:

• frontend with live-reload and access to backend
• styling with sass. also reloaded automatically
• support for font-awesome and POC on images - including style references to images
• auto-reload for backend with nodemon
• js-standard linter
• testing for both with mocha for backend and karma+jasmine for frontend
• a build that packs minimized version of the project to tar.gz.
• coverage reports for tests in frontend & backend

How to use

• npm test - runs linter, frontend tests with coverage, backend tests with coverage
  write backend tests under tests/backend with suffix .spec.js
  write frontend tests under tests/frontend with suffix .spec.js
• npm run build - annotates angular, minifies code and packs npm in dist folder
• npm start - runs the project in development environment
• npm server:dist - will run the project just like it would in production.

Using --silent on npm run commands

In some commands it is recommended to use --silent.
For example, running npm test might result in error.
npm has an annoying error print if it exists in none 0 exit code. read more

A simple solution is to run npm test --silent

Using no-color

Sometimes it is also recommended to use npm config set color false
Note, this will not always apply to the output coming from a script.

For example, if log4js is used, it will print with color