generator-saloon

Yeoman + Cowboy = Saloon !

Saloon is a yeoman generator for building cowboy-based web app.

A saloon contains:

• Backend:
  • erlang/OTP cowboy (version 2)
  • cowboy-swagger: integrates cowboy with swagger (patched for cowboy 2)
• Frontend:
  • Angular.js, with some fancy modules: route, touch, resource (see priv/www/bower.json);
  • Bower for managing Javascript dependancies;
  • Bootstrap SASS for easy HTML
• Build system: GNU make + erlang.mk

Dependencies

• yeoman-generator >= 0.18.0
• mustache >= 2.2.1
• bower
• GNU make

Quickstart

1. Install npm (see nvm for easy Node.js + npm install)
2. Install yeoman and this generator

   $ npm install -g yo generator-saloon

3. Create a folder for your app

   $ mkdir $HOME/myapp

4. Call yeoman to create your app:

   $ cd $HOME/myapp && yo saloon

5. You can now build your app and start it:

   $ make && ./start.sh

6. You app is running and accessible on port 8080.

TODO

• Generates a nice(r) frontend
• Integrates a data model (JHipster ? OCCI ?)