Tesla.js Command Line Interface

Full Documentation: teslajs.com

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About

Tesla is a modern MVC style framework built on top of Node.js and Express. It's built to be fast, simple and easy to configure, with sane defaults and flexible boilerplates to get you up and running as quickly as possible.

It's still a work in progress, with more features being added, and while the current build seems stable, bug reports are always apreciated!

Features

MVC

Simple but useful MVC structure with optional scaffolding to auto-create models, controllers & even a simple JSON API for you. Models use Node-ORM so you’re not tied to a specific database.

Auto-routing

If your url’s follow the domain.com/controller/action/:id format, there’s no need to create any custom routing, it will just automatically load the controller/view if it’s found, and throw a 404 if it’s not.

Flexible Templates

You can choose from EJS, Handlebars, Hogan, Jade or Handlebars for templates. Less, Sass & Stylus are available for css pre-processors (with additional support for Bourbon, Axis & Nib libraries).

Boilerplates

Tesla uses a combination of npm and Bower to help create some useful boilerplates when setting up a new app. You can choose to have Tesla add things like jQuery, AngularJS, Foundation, etc. to your view templates automatically when it creates the project.

Auto-watch & LiveReload

Tesla utilizes the Grunt task runner to watch for file changes, restarting the server when necessary. It also comes with LiveReload out of the box to auto refresh your browser when files change.

Easy Configuration

Almost all of the server settings (port number, database settings, etc.) can be easily updated in the config file.

Installation

Install Tesla globally (recommended):

$ npm install tesla-cli -g

Or, install Tesla locally:

$ npm install tesla-cli

Quick Start

Now that you have the command-line tool installed, you can create your first app:

$ tesla mysite

This will create a new barebones site with the name "mysite". Next, install dependencies:

$ cd mysite && npm install

Start the server:

$ gulp

Once the server has started, simply point your browser to: http://localhost:3000

If you choose not to use Grunt, you can start the server by running node server.js. But using Grunt gives you some extras such as livereload, and watching for changes your files & restarting the server whenever necesary.

DOCUMENTATION

For Full documentation, please visit teslajs.com

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