Example MVC project with Express and Handlebars

This project is a base example for MVC pattern with Express and Handlebars. For dependencies installation you can use:

npm install

For run the project in production, you can use:

npm start

For development environment, you can use:

npm run dev

For linting you can use:

npm run lint
npm run lint:fix

How to use this project

Folders

This projects follow the MVC pattern, you can see four main folders at src:

controllers: Controllers are the main logic of the application. This controllers will be called by the routes.

models: Models are the main data access of the application. This models will be called by the controllers. This folder contains entities, DAOs or repositories.

views: This views will be called by the controllers. This folder contains the handlebars templates for server side rendering HTML.

public: This folder contains the static files for the application.

Files

We have three files on the src folder:

routes.js: This file is the main routes file. It will be used to configure the routes and his controllers.

index.js: This file is the entry point of the application. It will be mount the server.

app.js: This file is the main application file. It will be used to configure the express application.

Linter rules

This project uses standard linter rules. You can see the rules on eslint-config-standard.