When I run express app_name, expressjs creates all the folders and files needed. I'm wondering if there's a way to do the same but instead of creating the app.js in JS, it creates in CoffeeScript.
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Try this: https://github.com/twilson63/express-coffee
express-coffee is a template or boiler-plate to get started writing express web applications in CoffeeScript. It comes ready to go with base setup for an Express Web App. It includes a Cakefile that lets you build, spec, and watch your coffeescript as you develop. You hack in the src folder and run cake build to build you server files, write your mocha in your test folder and run cake test or spec to run your test suite. Create your jade views in the views folder and put your public assets in the public folder...
answered Sep 2, 2011 at 14:17
Jason Miesionczek
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Is this still the best answer? I ask because I get errors when trying to use this with
node v4.2.1 - and, with a few exceptions, the last time most of the files were updated in that project was 3-4 years ago...
I don't think there's a command-line tool to do this, but there are plenty of template projects you could start from. In particular, I'd recommend sstephenson's node-coffee-project. It's not Express specific, but you can easily throw Express into the package.json and create a src/app.coffee file that looks something like
express = require 'express'
app = express.createServer()
# TODO: configuration
app.listen 3000
The important thing is to have a Cakefile that can do the tasks your project needs. For an Express project, you might want to add a task that not only continuously recompiles your CoffeeScript, but also restarts the server every time you change a source file. Here's a gist of a Cakefile I'm using on one of my projects (you'll have to add "watch-tree" to your `devDependencies).
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ExpressOnSteroids Express + SCSS + COFFEE SCRIPT
clone project and start cake task /path/to/cake dev
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just found that there is a project called 'zappa' on github that might be helpful to you http://zappajs.org
