Useful boilerplate files

.gitignore

### OSX ###
.DS_Store
.AppleDouble
.LSOverride
Icon

# Thumbnails
._*

# Files that might appear on external disk
.Spotlight-V100
.Trashes

### Node ###
lib-cov
*.seed
*.log
*.csv
*.dat
*.out
*.pid
*.gz

pids
logs
results

### NPM ###
npm-debug.log
node_modules

### Bower ###
public/components

### Compiled css ###
public/stylesheets/css
.sass-cache

### PhPStorm ###
.idea/

### Db config ###
db_config.js

Gruntfile.js

module.exports = function(grunt) {
  grunt.initConfig({
    pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),

    // Concatenate files
    concat: {
      dist: {
        src: ['public/javascripts/*.js'],
        dest: 'public/javascripts/application.js'
      }
    },

    // Minify files
    uglify: {
      build: {
        src: 'public/javascripts/application.js',
        dest: 'public/javascripts/application.min.js'
      }
    },

    // Optimize images
    imagemin: {
      dynamic: {
        files: [{
          expand: true,
          cwd: 'public/',
          src: ['images/*.{png,jpg,gif}'],
          dest: 'public/'
        }]
      }
    },

    // // Sass
    // sass: {
    //   dist: {
    //     options: {
    //       style: 'compressed'
    //     },
    //     files: {
    //       'public/stylesheets/application.css': 'public/stylesheets/application.sass'
    //     }
    //   }
    // },

    // Compass
    compass: {
      dist: {
        options: {
          sassDir: 'public/stylesheets/sass',
          cssDir: 'public/stylesheets/css'
        }
      }
    },

    // Watch for changes and run tasks
    watch: {
      options: {
        livereload: true,
      },

      scripts: {
        files: ['public/javascripts/*.js'],
        tasks: ['concat', 'uglify'],
        options: {
          spawn: false,
        }
      },

      css: {
        files: ['public/stylesheets/sass/*.sass'],
        tasks: ['compass'],
        options: {
          spawn: false,
        }
      }
    }
  });

  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-concat');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-uglify');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-imagemin');
  // grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-sass');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-compass');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch');

  grunt.registerTask('default', ['concat', 'uglify', 'imagemin']);
  grunt.registerTask('dev', ['watch']);
};

package.json

{
  "name": "appname",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "private": true,
  "scripts": {
    "start": "nodemon app.js"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "express": "3.4.0",
    "jade": "*"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "grunt": "~0.4.2",
    "grunt-contrib-concat": "~0.3.0",
    "grunt-contrib-uglify": "~0.2.7",
    "grunt-contrib-imagemin": "~0.4.0",
    "grunt-contrib-watch": "~0.5.3",
    "grunt-contrib-compass": "~0.7.0"
  }
}