#Backbone Marionette Boilerplate This is a platform for building SPA using Backbone and Marionette. It is a way of organizing your application. This boilerplate include:

• File structure
• Loading project dependencies with Bower
• Building you application with Grunt
• Using require.js for loading application dependencies
• Writing styles with Less
• Simple web-server on Node and Express.js

##Getting started ####0. Install global dependencies Your have to install Git, download and install Node.

####1. Copy repo

# Clone only latest revision:
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sorokin-evgeni/backbone-marionette-boilerplate.git
# Remove .git folder
rm -rf backbone-marionette-boilerplate/.git 
# Move files to your folder:
mv backbone-marionette-boilerplate my-project-name

####2. Update dependencies

# Globaly install bower
npm install -g bower
# Install NPM dependencies. You have to do it from your project folder.
npm install
# Install bower dependencies.
bower install

####3. Building project

# Run grunt tasks
grunt

####4. Starting your application

# Start node server
node server/app.js

Open in your browser http://localhost:3000.

##Files structure

# Only for production usage. 
# All static keeps here: js and css bundles, generated initial index.html
dist/
# All static source code keeps here.
public/
    # CSS and compiled css from less. 
    # All files from this folder will be included in bundle
    css/
    js/
        # All application files
        app/
            # Backbone models which can be shared between any modules
            models/
            # Marionette modules. Independent parts of application
            modules/
            # Common views
            views/
        # All application dependencies. Uploaded from bower
        lib/
        # Application entry point
        app.js
        require.config.js
        require.js
    less/
    # All client templates
    templates/
server/
    # Server templates. Now generate index.html
    templates/
    # Server application
    app.js
    

Files structure is flexible. It can be changed by rewriting paths in config.json.
Environment variable also keeps in config.json.

##Licence Copyright © 2014 Evgeny Sorokin.
Licensed under the MIT license.