Node + EJS boilderplate

For quick static sites.

Install and Run

npm install

npm start

Routing

Each new page you add needs to be a folder with an index.ejs file in it inside of the src/ directory. Then you can access the page via the folder route. See below for example:

Folder structure:

.src/
...index.ejs
...about/
......index.ejs
...contact/
......index.ejs

If you wanted to navigate to the about page in the browser you would use http://localhost:2004/about/

Assets

All static assets/images can be put in the _images folder. They can then be referenced on your pages like so:

<img src="/_images/my-image.jpeg" />

Node Modules

If you want to distribute any node modules, you will need to add them to the "buildNodeModules" function in the gulp task file gulpfile.js.

You need to specify the path in the node_modules folder to make. See below example:

const modules = [
  {
    module: './node_modules/path/to/mymodule/file.min.js',
    dest: './dist/js/modules/',
  },
];

Gulp will make a copy into the local dist folder so it can be served. It can then be referenced using the path variable in ejs like this:

<script src="<%- path %>js/modules/file.min.js"></script>

Distributing

When you're ready to distribute the goods, run the below command. This will compile/transpile/minimize everything and place all in the dist/ folder.

gulp build-dist

Gulp Tasks

Gulp tasks will run automatically but to manually run them:

Building Javascript: This will concat the js files together in order by name:

gulp build-js

Building SASS

gulp build-sass

Compressing Images

gulp build-images

Using JS Node Modules on the client

gulp build-js-modules

Testing

Create your *.spec.js files as needed inside src/_js/*

npm run test

This boilerplate includes the following

• Gulp (task runner)
• EJS (templating)
• BrowserSync (live reloading)
• SASS (css preprocessor)
• ES6 (gulp-babel)
• eslint (js linting)
• Mocha (testing)
• Karma (test runner)
• Chai (testing assertion lib)