This repository gives you a simple boilerplate for rapidly developing an application using the PENS stack (nobody calls it that but me).

• Polymer (client-side framework)
• Epilogue & Express (routing frameworks)
• Node (server)
• Sequelize (data access)

This will be links later

• download node, git, npm and bower
• clone this repository
• run npm install and bower install
• start hacking!

• run npm run start

Sequelize and Epilogue team up to make creating routes super easy.

• Create a model in it's own file in db/models example:

   //db/models/post.js 
   module.exports = function (sequelize, DataTypes) {
   var Post = sequelize.define("Post", {
     text: DataTypes.STRING,
     title: DataTypes.STRING
     }, {
      classMethods: {
        associate: function (models) {
        }
      }
    });
    return Post;
  }

• Add your resource to api/index.js

  var posts = rest.resource({
      model: db.models.Post,
      endpoints: ['/posts', '/posts/:id'],
  });  

• Test your application
  • run npm run start
  • use a rest client (eg. POSTman) and interact with /api/posts
  • you should have basic CRUD routes now.

• consider a resources folder similar to models which is auto included
• create generator for model/resource
• create generator for polymer element
• tests