This is a demo node.js application illustrating various features used in everyday web development, with a fine touch of best practices. The demo app is a blog application where users (signing up using facebook, twitter, github and simple registrations) can create an article, delete an article and add comments on the article.

Read the wiki (or the old blog post) for the application architecture.

Want to build something from scratch? use the boilerplate app

Checkout the apps that are built using this approach

NOTE: You need to have node.js, mongodb and imagemagick installed and running.

  $ git clone git://github.com/madhums/node-express-mongoose-demo.git
  $ npm install
  $ cp config/config.example.js config/config.js
  $ cp config/imager.example.js config/imager.js
  $ npm start

NOTE: Do not forget to update your facebook twitter and github APP_ID and APP_SECRET in config/config.js. Also if you want to use image uploads, don't forget to replace the S3 and Rackspace keys in config/imager.js.

Then visit http://localhost:3000/

1. node-genem A module to generate the MVC skeleton using this approach.
2. node-notifier - used for notifications via emails and push notificatiions
3. node-imager - used to resize, crop and upload images to S3/rackspace
4. node-view-helpers - some common view helpers
5. mongoose-migrate - Keeps track of the migrations in a mongodb collection (fork of visionmedia/node-migrate)
6. mongoose-user - Generic methods, statics and virtuals used for user schemas

-app/
  |__controllers/
  |__models/
  |__mailer/
  |__views/
-config/
  |__routes.js
  |__config.js
  |__passport.js (auth config)
  |__imager.js (imager config)
  |__express.js (express.js configs)
  |__middlewares/ (custom middlewares)
-public/

$ npm test

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Copyright (c) 2012 Madhusudhan Srinivasa < [email protected] >

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