Bedrock is a quick way to start an Express app with nice defaults without having to worry about setup and configuration. It is a collection of modules and libraries that I find myself using in almost every Express app that I make. Bedrock removes the repetition that is involved when building a new Express app.
You can deploy a new Bedrock server instantly for free on Heroku, just by clicking the button below:
Features
Bedrock does the following for you:
- Sets up your views and layout files
- Configures a basic Express 4.0 Server
- Sets up a Handlebars View Engine
- Exposes useful Handlebars helpers
- Sets up a place to store config data
- Creates 404/500 pages
- Basic Route Handling
- Loads popular front-end code (jQuery/Pure by default)
- Shares Handlebars partials with the client
- Shares JavaScript variables with the client
Stack
By default, Bedrock is built on the following stack:
- Express 4.x
- Handlebars View Engine, with express-handlebars
- Common Handlebars Helpers like
{{addLocalJS}},{{addRemoteCSS}}and others to make it easy to load CSS/JS on a per-page basis. - Uses express-state to expose data from the server to the client.
- Allows you to share Handlebars templates/partials between the server and the client.
View the source on GitHub, or check out the installation instructions.
