generator-mn

Modern setup for Marionette applications

Features

• Bundling with webpack
  • Configures dev npm script with a live server for development
  • Configures prod npm script for production
  • Uses the newer webpack tools (webpack-command and webpack-serve)
• Compilation with babel 6.x
  • Uses preset-env
  • Out of the box configured to support ie 11 and green browsers
• Preconfigured service-worker using Workbox
• Option to install CSS/UI frameworks
• Option to install custom renderers
• Option to install bottlejs (dependency injection micro library)
• Option to install hygen templates (view, model, route)

Installation

First, install Yeoman and generator-mn using npm (we assume you have pre-installed node.js).

npm install -g yo
npm install -g generator-mn

Usage

Generate a new project

yo mn

The generator will ask for some options:

CSS/UI framework

• none
• Bootstrap 3
• Bootstrap 4 - with font awesome
• Framework7 v2

Renderers

• Snabbdom
• React
• Inferno
• Incremental-Bars (Handlebars + incremental-dom)
• Virtual-Dom
• Tinybind (based on rivets)

Some renderers offers specific options for addons like configuration of JSX or jade transformer

Backbone/Marionette plugins

• backbone-computedfields
• backbone.validation
• backbone.syphon
• backbone.localstorage
• marionette.native
• marionette.routing
• marionette.modalservices
• radio.service

Extra libraries

• bottlejs (dependency injection micro library)
• hygen templates for creating model, view, route (needs hygen installed globally)

Build the application

For development (a server will be started usually at http://localhost:8080)

npm run dev 

For production

npm run prod

License

MIT © Luiz Américo Pereira Câmara