Gulp Angular Skeleton ☠

A basic Angular app structure, with Gulp, Bower, and Express.

Dependencies

Node (which includes npm), Bower, and SASS.

Setup/Use

1. Run npm install
2. Run bower install
3. Run the webserver in one terminal tab nodemon app/server.js and open up localhost:3000.
4. Run gulp watch in another terminal tab to run JS Lint and compile CSS.
5. To create a build of your app for deployment, run gulp build. This will create a /dist folder containing your app.
6. You can then test the build using nodemon dist/server.js.

File Structure

The entire app is in app/, which includes a server.js file for the webserver and a public/ folder with the entire front end. Inside of public there's index.html, the root page for a single page app. There's scss/ for the SCSS, which gets compiled into css/main.min.css. bower_components/ also lives here, and houses bower dependencies. js/ houses main.js, the main JavaScript file for the app, and then you can include subfolders for various Angular pieces; included is /controllers. Finally, there's partials for Angular html views.

The Server

This is a very basic Express server. I like to separate front end watchers from the server side, so I chose to have you run the server from outside of the Gulpfile.

The Gulpfile

If you are interested in looking through an annotated version of this gulpfile, check out my gist

In the Future...

Tests, image minification