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A flatiron http server template in coffee-script

based on iron-coffee

by Tom Wilson

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About

Black Coffee is a template or boiler-plate to get started writing flatiron web applications in CoffeeScript.

It includes a Cakefile that lets you build, and watch your coffeescript as you develop.

Just hack away at app.coffee in the src directory and create your own
pages. Skeleton CSS framework is included as well as a default skeleton page.

The default CoffeeCup templates for black-coffee are located in the src/pages directory. 3 pages and a layout template are included as examples in addition to the skeleton page.

Assets can be served from the 'assets' directory using ecstatic.

Example Website

Drink your Black Coffee

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Technologies

This template uses the following to create nodejs applications

• Node v0.6.14
• Flatiron
• CoffeeScript v1.3.1
• CoffeeCup Master
• Creamer
• node-ecstatic
• Skeleton

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Getting Started

Install nodejs and npm

git clone http://github.com/gradus/black-coffee.git [project-name]
cd [project-name]
npm install .

This is just a template to get you started.

If you want to make this your own project on github:

git remote rm origin
git remote add origin git@github.com:[your github accountname]/[project-name].git

Dependencies

npm install .
npm install flatiron

Black-Coffee currently requires the master version of director

cd node_modules/flatiron
npm uninstall director
npm install git://github.com/flatiron/director.git
cd ../../

Build

cake build

Watch

cake watch

Test

write tests, put them in the test directory and run

cake test

Run

npm start

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Thanks