Coffee-bone

Boilerplate for single page app built on CoffeeScript, Backbone, Sass, Gulp, Browserify, amongst other things...

Although it technically works "out of the box" (-ish), really requires some configuration, and probably contains a lot of extra crap you don't need.

Install using NPM

1. $ cd [YOUR PROJECT FOLDER]
2. $ npm install coffeebone
3. $ node node_modules/coffeebone/clean.js
4. $ node install.js [APP NAMESPACE] optional - just namespaces app in all coffee files
5. $ npm install
6. $ gulp

Install

1. Clone repo into [DIR NAME]
2. $ cd [DIR NAME]
3. $ npm install
4. $ node install.js [APP NAMESPACE] optional - just namespaces app in all coffee files
5. $ gulp

Gulp tasks

• $ gulp - development mode

  • Watchify (browserify)
  • Compile Sass
  • Autoprefix CSS
  • Minify XML templates
  • Optimise images
  • BrowserSync (local server)
  • • watch for changes in .coffee, .scss, templates.xml and images, trigger repeat

• $ gulp build - pre-deploy build

  • Browserify
  • Remove console.logs
  • Compile Sass
  • Autoprefix CSS
  • Combine media queries
  • Minify CSS
  • Minify XML templates
  • Concatenate vendor JS
  • Uglify JS (vendor + main application JS)
  • Custom modernizr build based on refs used through app -- TO DO
  • Iconizr -- TO DO

• Others:

  • Check /gulp/tasks - each file corresponds to an individual gulp task

General FE app structure notes

• Router.coffee - capture / modify URL hashChange events
• Nav.coffee - list all available site routes, handle / delegate URL hashChange events
• AppView.coffee - Core view, all UI bound here. Anything with a deeplink in Wrapper, any modal-only content in ModalManager
• Wrapper.coffee
  • mapping for all site deeplinked views
  • each view may be an AbstractViewPage or AbstractViewModal
  • handle management of deeplinked pages / modals based on view 'type' and history state
  • trigger sub-route event changing
• AbstractViewPage / AbstractViewModal - URL based pages, built in methods for page transitions
• _ModalManager.coffee - custom modal management (non URL-based popups)

Important FE utils / data management

• API.coffee - use to retrieve all endpoints
• UserData.coffee - holds all user data, convenience methods to integrate with assumed user API endpoints (login / logout etc)
• Templates.coffee - all application HTML is loaded via single XML file, this templates wrapper allows getter based on ID
• Locale.coffee - all localised copy is expected in JSON file format, based on predefined (or detected) ISO-compatible locale code. This class offers wrapper to get localised string based on unique ID.
• Analytics.coffee - Google Analytics custom event firing, requires custom JSON containing ID / event string mappings.
• Share.coffee - Wrapper for sharing to various social networks in popup windows (except FB, this should be done via Facebook.coffee class)
• Others - just look around :)

Included SDKs

These come packaged in wrapper classes that load the SDKs asynchronously and have some helper methods for API interaction

• Facebook (Facebook.coffee)
• Google+ (GooglePlus.coffee)

Included JS libs

• Backbone (+ jQuery + Underscore + Backbone DeepModel)
• TweenLite.js (+ CSSPlugin + EasePack)

Sass

• Normalise
• Custom easing
• Various helpers + mixins