Coffeescript in expressjs app!?

Question

JavaScript

Where is the right place to put *.coffee files that are translated into *.js ?
What is a convenient application structure so as not to get confused in the future?

Answer 1

For files that work on the server, there is no need to translate them into js manually at all, node.js can do it itself. All you need to do to run the application is something like this file:

#!/usr/bin/env node
CoffeeScript = require("coffee-script");
CoffeeScript.register();

create_app = require("../app/application");
app = create_app();
app.listen(5000);
console.log("Application running on http://localhost:5000/");
console.log("(" + process.env.NODE_ENV + " mode)");

where ../app/application is application.coffee, then you can work in coffee files as well as js, when connecting modules, you do not need to specify the .coffee extension