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Please check the official website for express application generator https://expressjs.com/en/starter/generator.html
Express' Model View Controller Application Generator.
Installation
$ npm install express-mvc-generator -g ##Display the command options with the -h option:
express -h
Usage: express [options] [dir]
Options:
-h, --help output usage information
-V, --version output the version number
-e, --ejs add ejs engine support (defaults to EJS)
--hbs add handlebars engine support
-H, --hogan add hogan.js engine support
-c, --css <engine> add stylesheet <engine> support (less|stylus|compass|sass) (defaults to plain css)
--git add .gitignore
-f, --force force on non-empty directory
For example, the following creates an Express app named myapp in the current working directory:
express myapp:
$ express myapp
create : myapp
create : myapp/public/js/script.js
create : myapp/package.json
create : myapp/app.js
create : myapp/public
create : myapp/public/js
create : myapp/public/img
create : myapp/public/css
create : myapp/public/css/style.css
create : myapp/config
create : myapp/config/routes.js
create : myapp/config/constants.js
create : myapp/config/database.js
create : myapp/config/passport.js
create : myapp/app/views
create : myapp/app/views/login.ejs
create : myapp/app/views/signup.ejs
create : myapp/app/views/index.ejs
create : myapp/app/views/index.ejs
create : myapp/app/views/error.ejs
create : myapp/app/views/404.html
create : myapp/app/controllers
create : myapp/app/controllers/home.js
install dependencies:
$ cd myapp && npm install
run the app:
$ DEBUG=myapp:* node app or nodemon app
create : myapp/app/models
create : myapp/app/models/home.js
create : myapp/lib
create : myapp/lib/email.js
Install dependencies:
$ npm install###File Structure
$ express myapp
myapp
|
|
|____app
| |____controllers
| | |____home.js
| |
| |____models
| | |___home.js
| |
| |____views
| |___404.ejs
| |___error.ejs
| |___index.ejs
| |___login.ejs
| |___signup.ejs
|
|
|_____config
| |___auth.js
| |___constants.js
| |___database.js
| |___passport.js
| |___routes.js
|
|
|____lib
| |___email.js
|
|____node_modules
|
|
|____public.js
| |____css
| | |__style.css
| |
| |____js
| | |__script.js
| |
| |____img
| | |__img.jpg
| |
| |
| |____uploads
| |__img.jpg
|
|
|
|_____app.js
|
|
|
|_____package.json
###Important Settings
- Open your config/database.js , Please configure your mongo db.
- Open your config/constants.js , Please configure your constants(SMTP ....).
- Do you want use SMTP ,Please uncomment passport.js line 95 to 98
Run The express-mvc-generator Application
$ node app or nodemon app Demo URL's
Signup : http://localhost:8042/signup
Login : http://localhost:8042/login
Command Line Options
This generator can also be further configured with the following command line flags.
-h, --help output usage information
-V, --version output the version number
-e, --ejs add ejs engine support (defaults to jade)
--hbs add handlebars engine support
--jade add jade engine support
-H, --hogan add hogan.js engine support
-c, --css <engine> add stylesheet <engine> support (less|stylus|compass|sass) (defaults to plain css)
--git add .gitignore
-f, --force force on non-empty directory
Features
- Very Good file structure MVC style Express.
- Already We Given Examples of Controller and Model(Mongoose) , Passport and Config Settings
- Pre Installed Important and Most Used NPM Packages , and used Example
- We Given Simple And Well understanding Express MVC Example
- We already included most used and important npm modules like as pm2 ,async, body-parse, sessions, flash, cookie, dateformat, mongoose, nodemailer , nodemon, passport
- Support View engines:
- Jade
- Handlebars
- Swig
- EJS
- Marko
- Nunjucks
- Supported CSS pre-processors
- SASS (both node-sass and ruby sass)
- LESS
- Stylus
- Supported Databases (with MVC structure):
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- RethinkDB
- SQLite
Help/Assistance
Email Us : [email protected]