Building a JavaScript application

See the accompanying presentation

The app

• Require.js for loading modules
• Backbone.js for models, views and routers
• Hogan.js for Mustache templates, which are precompiled to JavaScript in production

Testing

• Jasmine for tests
• Sinon for test spies, stubs and mocks
• Karma to run tests
• PhantomJS for headless testing

The tests can by run in IntelliJ. First you need to install the NodeJS plugin for IntelliJ, then you can follow the setup here.

The build process

• ShellJS for Unix shell commands in Node.js
• r.js for minified JavaScript in production
• JSHint to detect problems and errors in the JavaScript code
• Less for compiling Less to CSS
• OptiPNG for optimizing PNGs

Running the build process

$ node make.js

This runs the all target.

Optionally, to run a specific target:

$ node make.js targetName

License

Unless otherwise noted, the code in this repo is in the public domain.