polar v0.4.3

polar

Boilerplate for a basic Express setup.

• Simple request logging
• Cookie and form parsing
• Jade templating
• Static file serving
• Static file preprocessing (with Metaserve)

Usage

Create an app instance just as you would with Express, passing options to polar. Start the app with app.start().

polar = require 'polar'

app = polar
    port: 8583

app.get '/', (req, res) ->
    res.render 'hi',
        date: new Date()

app.start()

Options

• port REQUIRED — Port for your app to listen on
• middleware — Array of middleware functions
• metaserve — Metaserve options object, default uses metaserve-css-styl and metaserve-js-coffee-reactify
• view_dir — Directory to look for view templates in, default is /views
• view_engine — Templating engine, default is Jade
• no_cookie_parser — Do not use express.cookieParser
• no_body_parser — Do not use express.bodyParser
• session — Configuration for connect-redis, default is null (no sessions)
  • secret — Secret key for connect-redis sessions