Robust and comfortable dev stack for isomorphic web apps. Mobile first, offline first, frontend first.

• TodoMVC, repo Just plain TodoMVC example.
• Songary, repo Real app in development. Many interesting patterns to see.

• Google Closure
• Facebook React
• expressjs
• este-library (only router stuff and some React and Flux helpers)
• polymer-gestures

• Plain old JavaScript, of course.
• React JSX - Don't use harmony class syntax yet please.
• CoffeeScript (compatible with Closure Compiler) - Why CoffeeScript? Isn't ES6 better? Maybe, but CoffeeScript works well for years already.

• Stylus is recommended, sure you can use LESS or anything else.

• Well tuned gulp dev stack
• Super fast file-watcher
• Awesome DI Container
• Brilliant Closure Compiler
• TDD ready Mocha

Java 1.7+ and Node.js are required.

npm install -g gulp
npm install -g bower

For Windows users: strongloop.com/strongblog/install-node-js-windows. Install everything except StrongLoop.

git clone https://github.com/steida/este.git este-app
cd este-app
npm install
bower install

• run gulp
• point your browser to localhost:8000
• build something beautiful

Start development. Build app and run development stack.

gulp

Production mode. Styles are minified and scripts are compiled.

gulp --production or gulp -p

Only build. Useful for continuous integration.

gulp build or gulp build --production

Run development stack. Useful to skip building phase.

gulp run or gulp run --production

Debug makes compiled scripts readable.

gulp build --production=debug

Recommended settings.

OSX has default limit for opened files set to 256. Fix it with ulimit -n 10000

• twitter.com/estejs
• medium.com/@steida
• facebook.com/groups/110240425784074
• groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/estejs

Integrate ES6, definitely. Add and decribe more functional patterns, like Flux or CSP. More mobile/offline awareness.

Copyright (c) 2013 Daniel Steigerwald

Licensed under the MIT license.