• Quick & easy to get started
• Mithril rocks. Faster to load & render than react. It's clean & small, and does it's job well.
• Express middleware efficiently handles building CSS & javascript, so no grunt/gulp!
• Comment widgets/animations you don't need from bootstrap and animation.less
• Easily themable using bootswatch
• Slick & efficient JWT+bcrypt+mongodb authentication
• In-memory dev mongodb, so you can develop without configuring anything

• download
• npm install
• npm start

Use .env to set environment variables. Here are some good ones:

MONGO_URI=mongodb://localhost/myfarkensweetapp
TOKEN_SECRET=kittyonth4keyb04rdME0W!ksjdhfwpeoir
PORT=3000