Cafe Sua Da

A CoffeeScript-based MVC framework built on top of the Express framework and Grunt.

Features

• Assets compilation with Grunt
• Easy to use routing

Local Environment

Launch App

foreman start or coffee app.coffee

Default Local URL

http://localhost:5000

Configurations

boot.js

To be documented...

engines.json

Speciy a compiler to use for your application's assets and view renderer

Options

html

Type: String Default: ejs

This is used to define the view rendering engine for the application.

Currently Supports:

• ejs

css

Type: String Default: stylus

This is used to define the CSS framework to use for handling your CSS assets with Grunt.

Currently Supports:

• css
• stylus
• scss
• sass

js

Type: String Default: coffee

This is used to define the JS framework to use for handling your JS assets with Grunt.

Currently Supports:

• js
• coffee

Sample engines.json

{
  "html" : "ejs",
  "css" : "stylus",
  "js" : "coffee"
}

paths.js

You can customize the app folder names here.

99.99% of the time, you will never ever need to change this.

routes.json

Enter custom routes here and route them to a specific routes file in your application directory.

To specify a route, each line should be key value where the key is the combined string of the request method and the request URI and the value is the path of your routes file relative to your application routes directory.

Method	Request URI	Routes File To Be Loaded
GET	/	/app/routes/index.js
GET	/news	/app/routes/news/archive.js
GET	/news/:postid/	/app/routes/news/single
POST	/news/:postid/	/app/routes/news/post.js
DELETE	/news/:postid/	/app/routes/news/delete.js

Sample routes.json

{
	"GET /" : "index",
	"GET /news" : "news/archive",
	"GET /news/:postid/" : "news/single",
	"POST /news/:postid/" : "news/post",
	"DELETE /news/:postid/" : "news/delete"
}

Building Assets

Run grunt in your project's root directory to compile the assets folder into your public folder.

You should place all files into the assets directory when compiling your public folder.

CHANGELOG

0.0.2

• Fixed grunt for JS files
• Added the ability to switch compilers for handling CSS and JS assets
• Cleaned up code/docblocks

0.0.1

• Initial development

TODOS

• Add support for more views engine
• Better documentation
• Convert Gruntfile to coffeescript