This is a command line utility for generating mounted Express subapps.

Installation:

npm install -g express-mount

Usage: express-mount [options] [dir]

Options:

  -h, --help          output usage information
  -V, --version       output the version number
  -e, --ejs           add ejs engine support (defaults to jade)
  -M, --mongoose      add mongoose model support
  -J, --jshtml        add jshtml engine support (defaults to jade)
  -H, --hogan         add hogan.js engine support
  -c, --css <engine>  add stylesheet <engine> support (less|stylus) (defaults to plain css)
  -f, --force         force on non-empty directory

Example:

$ express zoo

create : zoo
create : zoo/package.json
create : zoo/app.js
create : zoo/public
create : zoo/public/javascripts
create : zoo/public/images
create : zoo/public/stylesheets
create : zoo/public/stylesheets/style.css
create : zoo/routes
create : zoo/routes/index.js
create : zoo/routes/user.js
create : zoo/views
create : zoo/views/layout.jade
create : zoo/views/index.jade

$ cd zoo

$ express-mount lion

Creating module lion
 create : /zoo/lion
 create : /zoo/lion/index.js
 create : /zoo/lion/models
 create : /zoo/lion/models/index.js
 create : /zoo/lion/public/images
 create : /zoo/lion/public
 create : /zoo/lion/public/javascripts
 create : /zoo/lion/public/stylesheets
 create : /zoo/lion/public/stylesheets/style.css
 create : /zoo/lion/routes
 create : /zoo/lion/routes/index.js
 create : /zoo/lion/routes/home.js
 create : /zoo/lion/views
 create : /zoo/lion/views/layout.jade
 create : /zoo/lion/views/index.jade

$ express-mount tiger

Creating module tiger
 create : /zoo/tiger
 create : /zoo/tiger/index.js
 create : /zoo/tiger/models
 create : /zoo/tiger/models/index.js
 create : /zoo/tiger/public
 create : /zoo/tiger/public/images
 create : /zoo/tiger/routes
 create : /zoo/tiger/routes/index.js
 create : /zoo/tiger/routes/home.js
 create : /zoo/tiger/views
 create : /zoo/tiger/views/layout.jade
 create : /zoo/tiger/views/index.jade
 create : /zoo/tiger/public/stylesheets
 create : /zoo/tiger/public/stylesheets/style.css
 create : /zoo/tiger/public/javascripts

$ express-mount bear

Creating module bear
 create : /zoo/bear
 create : /zoo/bear/index.js
 create : /zoo/bear/models
 create : /zoo/bear/models/index.js
 create : /zoo/bear/public
 create : /zoo/bear/public/javascripts
 create : /zoo/bear/public/images
 create : /zoo/bear/public/stylesheets
 create : /zoo/bear/public/stylesheets/style.css
 create : /zoo/bear/routes
 create : /zoo/bear/routes/index.js
 create : /zoo/bear/routes/home.js
 create : /zoo/bear/views
 create : /zoo/bear/views/layout.jade
 create : /zoo/bear/views/index.jade

In /zoo/app.js:

app.use('/lion',require('./lion'));
app.use('/tiger',require('./tiger'));
app.use('/bear',require('./bear'));

NOTE that relative paths inside each subapp's view (href='resource', src='resource') will resolve to 'http://baseURL/subAppPath/resource'