• Testing setup with mocha and supertest
• CircleCI configuration for build, test and deploy script
• Ansible playbook for remote setup and update
• Sphinx_ docs: Documentation ready for generation with, for example, ReadTheDocs_
• Detailed make file for remote update, build or run nodemon, webpack and other tool
• Webpack, nodemon, handlebarjs, saas compilation, morgan logging preconfigured.
• Sentry error tracking setup
• Preconfigured passport js authentication with login required middleware
• JSHint, csurf, flash, helmet and other standard applied.

See: Cookiecutter: https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter

Install the latest Cookiecutter if you haven't installed it yet (this requires Cookiecutter 1.4.0 or higher)::

pip install -U cookiecutter

Generate a Python package project::

cookiecutter https://github.com/amritghimire/cookiecutter-express.git

Or if you prefer ssh version::

cookiecutter git@github.com:amritghimire/cookiecutter-express.git

Then:

• Create a repo and put it there.
• Add the repo to your CircleCI .
• Run make setup to setup the required packages and steps.
• Add a private key to circleci from project settings.
• Add the key to authorizedkey in your server.
• Add ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING =false environment variable in circleci.
• Update fingerprint in .circleci/config.yml to the key you added in circleci
• Install sphinx-autobuild to start building docs.
• Read the generated Readme file for more detail.

• project_slug : It is used as unique slug for the project in many place like apache config.
• peoject_url : The production server for the project.
• project_static_url : The cdn server for static files, specify same as project_url if otherwise.
• app_title: Title of project
• description : Description of project for package.json file.
• year : Current year for LICENSE FILE
• version : Version for package.json
• secret_key : Secret key for signing the session cookie
• remote_server: The remote server ip or hostname where ansible will be connecting to.
• remote_user : The remote user to be logged in as.
• port : Specify default port.
• git_project : Git project url where the server will be updated from.

If you have differences in your preferred setup, I encourage you to fork this to create your own version. Or create your own; it doesn't strictly have to be a fork.

• Once you have your own version working, add it to the Similar Cookiecutter Templates list above with a brief description.

• It's up to you whether or not to rename your fork/own version. Do whatever you think sounds good.

I also accept pull requests on this, if they're small, atomic, and if they make my own packaging experience better.