Introduction

This is a skeleton app that I created to help speed up the developemnt process for new Node.js web apps. It uses Backbone.js as the frontend and MongoDB for a persistence database.

Technologies Used

• Underscore.js - A utility-belt library for JavaScript without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects.
• Backbone.js - Gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.
• jQuery - A fast, concise, library that simplifies how to traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add AJAX.
• node.js - Event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment based on V8.
• Express - High performance, high class web development for node.js.
• Jade - High performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for node.js.
• Stylus - Expressive, dynamic, robust CSS for node.js
• Mongoose - A MongoDB object modeling tool designed to work in an asynchronous environment.
• MongoDB - A scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database.
• Jammit - Asset packing library ment for Rails, but works great here.
• Watchr - File system watching library that coupled with a simple util script, watches the models, controllers, and client-utils directories for changes and automatically runs jammit to re-compile.