Seems like http://survivejs.com/ http://survivejs.com/ might be along those lines. You might also want to check out some of the various boilerplates people hav

Seems like http://survivejs.com/ http://survivejs.com/ might be along those lines. You might also want to check out some of the various boilerplates people have posted on Github. Searching for some combination of your preferred stack tools + "boilerplate" should turn up a number of results.