#Simple Server

Lightweight scaffolding and build tool to quickly and easily develop a web application.

• transpiles scss into css
• transpiles es6 and jsx into es5
• concatenates all required/imported modules together into one minified file
• runs a simple express server that is deployable on heroku

##Getting started

• clone this repo with git clone git@github.com:TIY-Charleston-Front-End-Engineering/simple-server.git THE-LOCAL-FOLDER-YOU-WANT-TO-CREATE
• disconnect from my remote repo and point to your own (see Publishing)
• cd into the local folder
• npm install
• npm run go
• that's it! visit http://localhost:3000 to make sure it's working

##Workflow

• only files in /public will be served up to the browser.
• all .html pages are served from the /views folder
• all assets (CSS, JS, and images) are served from the /public folder
• you'll only write CSS and JS code in the files in the /src folder
• whenever you save while your local server is running (npm run go), your code in the /src folder will be read and transpiled into the /public folder.
• view and test your app at localhost:3000

##Publishing

• disconnect your local repo from this one with git remote remove origin
• hub create YOUR-APP-NAME -- this will simultaneously (1) create you a remote repo with the given name and (2) create a local reference connecting the directory you're in to the remote you just created
• add, commit and push per usual

##Deploying

The easiest thing to do is deploy to heroku. Once you have an account and you've installed the heroku command line tools, simply run:

• heroku create YOUR-APP-NAME
• git push heroku master

Have fun!