Skeleton for starting a new Angular or Node app. Can be adapted for other JS apps, but I put this together after getting tired of repeating steps for a lot of mini-apps while learning JS fullstack.

• Install Node and NPM
• npm install -g gulp

• gulp - default task is gulp watch
• gulp watch - compiles for dev, runs server at localhost:3000 incl. livereload
• gulp build - builds necessary files for /app/dist
• gulp build-run - builds for dist and runs server at dist to test production version

All your js work should be done in the app/src directory.

When you run your first gulp watch, a app/scripts directory gets created. DO NOT MODIFY THESE FILES, they will get overwritten.

Every js file you add will need a corresponding script tag in the index.html pointing to the /scripts/... location. Remember to use /scripts and not /src!

This is an intentional step to help with debugging and mindful upkeep of your app's configuration. I may remove in the future, but many tutorials include this step and I don't mind the step.

Libraries should be added unminified to the app/lib folder

You will need to add a tag block to your index.html

<!-- build:lib-js-[library_name] -->
  <script src="/lib/[library_name].js">
<!-- endbuild -->`

Then change the html task in the gulpfile.js to transform the naming to the .min.js convention.

This process is intentional to allow unminified library source in your app folder for browsing comments, etc. During the gulp build process, all libraries will get minified.

All your css work should be done in app/scss directory

The gulp watch will transpile/minify/concat, so no changes to index.html are required.

Images are unmodified and copied to dist on gulp build