AngularFire + ExpressJS generator

Yeoman generator for AngularJS + Firebase SDK 3.0 (and AngularFire) with a minimalist ExpressJS.

Usage

For step-by-step instructions on using Yeoman and this generator to build a TODO AngularJS application from scratch see this tutorial.

Install yo, grunt, bower, generator-angularfire-express and generator-karma:

npm install -g generator-angularfire-express

Make a new directory, and cd into it:

mkdir my-new-project && cd $_

Run yo angularfire-express, optionally passing an app name:

yo angularfire-express [app-name]

Run grunt for building and grunt serve for preview

Generators

Available generators:

• angularfire (aka angularfire-express:app)
• angularfire-express:controller
• angularfire-express:directive
• angularfire-express:filter
• angularfire-express:route
• angularfire-express:service
• angularfire-express:provider
• angularfire-express:factory
• angularfire-express:value
• angularfire-express:constant
• angularfire-express:decorator
• angularfire-express:view

App

Sets up a new AngularJS + Firebase SDK 3.0 + ExpressJS app, generating all the boilerplate you need to get started. The app generator also optionally installs Firebase authentication and account management, Bootstrap and additional AngularJS modules, such as angular-resource (installed by default).

Example:

yo angularfire-express

Route

Generates a controller and view, and configures a route in app/scripts/app.js connecting them.

Example:

yo angularfire-express:route myroute

Produces app/scripts/controllers/myroute.js:

angular.module('myMod').controller('MyrouteCtrl', function ($scope) {
  // ...
});

Produces app/views/myroute.html:

<p>This is the myroute view</p>

Explicitly provide route URI

Example:

yo angularfire-express:route myRoute --uri=my/route

Produces controller and view as above and adds a route to app/scripts/app.js with URI my/route

Controller

Generates a controller in app/scripts/controllers.

Example:

yo angularfire-express:controller user

Produces app/scripts/controllers/user.js:

angular.module('myMod').controller('UserCtrl', function ($scope) {
  // ...
});

Directive

Generates a directive in app/scripts/directives.

Example:

yo angularfire-express:directive myDirective

Produces app/scripts/directives/myDirective.js:

angular.module('myMod').directive('myDirective', function () {
  return {
    template: '<div></div>',
    restrict: 'E',
    link: function postLink(scope, element, attrs) {
      element.text('this is the myDirective directive');
    }
  };
});

Filter

Generates a filter in app/scripts/filters.

Example:

yo angularfire-express:filter myFilter

Produces app/scripts/filters/myFilter.js:

angular.module('myMod').filter('myFilter', function () {
  return function (input) {
    return 'myFilter filter:' + input;
  };
});

View

Generates an HTML view file in app/views.

Example:

yo angularfire-express:view user

Produces app/views/user.html:

<p>This is the user view</p>

Service

Generates an AngularJS service.

Example:

yo angularfire-express:service myService

Produces app/scripts/services/myService.js:

angular.module('myMod').service('myService', function () {
  // ...
});

You can also do yo angularfire-express:factory, yo angularfire-express:provider, yo angularfire-express:value, and yo angularfire-express:constant for other types of services.

Decorator

Generates an AngularJS service decorator.

Example:

yo angularfire-express:decorator serviceName

Produces app/scripts/decorators/serviceNameDecorator.js:

angular.module('myMod').config(function ($provide) {
    $provide.decorator('serviceName', function ($delegate) {
      // ...
      return $delegate;
    });
  });

Options

In general, these options can be applied to any generator, though they only affect generators that produce scripts.

(To find more options go to generator-angular repository

CoffeeScript

For generators that output scripts, the --coffee option will output CoffeeScript instead of JavaScript.

For example:

yo angularfire-express:controller user --coffee

Produces app/scripts/controller/user.coffee:

angular.module('myMod')
  .controller 'UserCtrl', ($scope) ->

A project can mix CoffeScript and JavaScript files.

To output JavaScript files, even if CoffeeScript files exist (the default is to output CoffeeScript files if the generator finds any in the project), use --coffee=false.

Output

You can change the app directory by adding a appPath property to bower.json. For instance, if you wanted to easily integrate with Express.js, you could add the following:

{
  "name": "yo-test",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  ...
  "appPath": "public"
}

This will cause Yeoman-generated client-side files to be placed in public.

Note that you can also achieve the same results by adding an --appPath option when starting generator:

yo angularfire-express [app-name] --appPath=public

Testing

Running grunt test will run the unit tests with karma.

License

BSD license